柏文

Chinese

		cypress; cedar; surname	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
simp. and trad. (柏文)		柏	文

Etymology

Borrowed from English apartment.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paak³ man⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: paak³ man⁴
    • Yale: paak màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paak⁸ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pag³ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːk̚³ mɐn²¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 柏文

1. (Cantonese, chiefly Canada, US) apartment

   • 他們租住柏文住宅大樓，有兩房一廳一浴室。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     他们租住柏文住宅大楼，有两房一厅一浴室。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2011, 薛迪鈞, 明月幾見常圓, page 168

     taa¹ mun⁴ zou¹ zyu⁶ paak³ man⁴ zyu⁶ zaak^6-2 daai⁶ lau⁴, jau⁵ loeng⁵ fong^4-2 jat¹ teng¹ jat¹ juk⁶ sat¹. [Jyutping]

     They are renting an apartment in a large residential building, which has two rooms, a living room and a bathroom.

Synonyms

• 雅柏文
• 公寓 (gōngyù)