鹹水埠

Chinese

		salt water; brine; Hong Kong dollar	a jetty; port; a city a jetty; port; a city; quay
trad. (鹹水埠)		鹹水	埠
simp. (咸水埠)		咸水	埠

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xiánshuǐbù

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄅㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haam⁴ seoi² fau⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xiánshuǐbù
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄅㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Siánshuěibù
  - Wade–Giles: Hsien²-shui³-pu⁴
  - Yale: Syán-shwěi-bù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shyanshoeibuh
  - Palladius: Сяньшуйбу (Sjanʹšujbu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: haam⁴ seoi² fau⁶
  - Yale: hàahm séui fauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haam⁴ soey² fau⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ham⁴ sêu² feo⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːm²¹ sɵy̯³⁵ fɐu̯²²/

Proper noun

鹹水埠

(dated) Chinatown (a neighborhood of Vancouver, Canada)
(dated) Vancouver (a city in British Columbia, Canada)
- 1904, 約翰大衛德 [David D. Jones], quoting advertisement, The Surnames of the Chinese in America [旅美華人姓字], page 32:
  
  加拿大　域多利　咸水埠　歌林巴等埠之總理華人入境委員 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  加拿大　域多利　咸水埠　歌林巴等埠之总理华人入境委员 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  gaa¹ naa⁴ daai⁶, wik⁶ do¹ lei⁶, haam⁴ seoi² fau⁶, go¹ lam⁴ baa¹ dang² bou⁶ zi¹ zung² lei⁵ waa⁴ jan⁴ jap⁶ ging² wai² jyun⁴ [Jyutping]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

→ English: Saltwater City (calque)

References

Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980) “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia‎^[1], page 14