巴陵

Chinese

		(suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish (suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish; Palestinian, Palestine (abbrev.); Pakistan (abbrev.); Pascal (unit of pressure)	mound; tomb; hill mound; tomb; hill; mountain
trad. (巴陵)		巴	陵
simp. #(巴陵)		巴	陵

Etymology

巴 (bā) may be a Kra-Dai substrate; compare Proto-Tai *praːᴬ (“stone mountain”), whence Zhuang bya, Thai ผา (pǎa).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bālíng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ㄌㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹ ling⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bālíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄌㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Balíng
    • Wade–Giles: Pa¹-ling²
    • Yale: Bā-líng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Baling
    • Palladius: Балин (Balin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ liŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baa¹ ling⁴
    • Yale: bā lìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹ ling⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹ ling⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵ lɪŋ²¹/

Proper noun

巴陵

1. (history) (～郡) Baling (a former commandery of imperial China that existed between the Liu Song and Sui dynasties, the territory of which covered modern-day Yueyang and parts of Hubei)
2. (history) (～縣) Baling (a former county of Hunan, China, established in 280 CE; renamed Yueyang county in 1913)