昌圖

Chinese

		prosperous; flourish	diagram; to plan; picture diagram; to plan; picture; drawing; chart
trad. (昌圖)		昌	圖
simp. (昌图)		昌	图

Etymology

From Mongolian [script needed] (chang-tu e-r-ke / 常突額爾克, “frost-covered cliff”); compare Mongolian ᠴᠠᠩᠲᠤᠬᠤ (čaŋtuqu, “covered with frost”) and ᠡᠷᠭᠢ (ergi, “shore, brink, precipice”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Chāngtú

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ ㄊㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹ tou⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Chāngtú
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤ ㄊㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Changtú
    • Wade–Giles: Chʻang¹-tʻu²
    • Yale: Chāng-tú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Changtwu
    • Palladius: Чанту (Čantu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵ tʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: coeng¹ tou⁴
    • Yale: chēung tòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng¹ tou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng¹ tou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵ tʰou̯²¹/

Proper noun

昌圖

1. (～縣) Changtu (a county of Tieling, Liaoning, China)