仰光

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (仰光)		仰	光

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ရန်ကုန် (rankun).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yǎngguāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤˇ ㄍㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng⁵ gwong¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Gióng-kong / Giáng-kong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yǎngguāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤˇ ㄍㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yǎngguang
    • Wade–Giles: Yang³-kuang¹
    • Yale: Yǎng-gwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yeangguang
    • Palladius: Янгуан (Janguan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: joeng⁵ gwong¹
    • Yale: yéuhng gwōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng⁵ gwong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêng⁵ guong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ¹³ kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gióng-kong
    • Tâi-lô: Gióng-kong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giofngkofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡiɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kɔŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Giáng-kong
    • Tâi-lô: Giáng-kong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giafngkofng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡiaŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

仰光

1. Yangon (a city in Myanmar)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (仰光):

• → Vietnamese: Ngưỡng Quang (仰光)

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
仰	光

Proper noun

仰光

1. chữ Hán form of Ngưỡng Quang (“Yangon”).