萬華

Chinese

		ten thousand; a great number; surname	flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain
trad. (萬華)		萬	華
simp. (万华)		万	华

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萬華(ばんか) (Banka), a phonetic approximation of Hokkien 艋舺 (Báng-kah).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Wànhuá

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶ waa⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Van-fà
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Bān-hôa / Báng-kah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Wànhuá
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Wànhuá
    • Wade–Giles: Wan⁴-hua²
    • Yale: Wàn-hwá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Wannhwa
    • Palladius: Ваньхуа (Vanʹxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵¹ xu̯ä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶ waa⁴
    • Yale: maahn wàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶ waa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁶ wa⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²² waː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Van-fà
    • Hakka Romanization System: van faˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: van⁴ fa²
    • Sinological IPA: /van⁵⁵ fa¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bān-hôa
    • Tâi-lô: Bān-huâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: baxnhoaa
    • IPA (Taipei): /ban³³⁻¹¹ hua²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ban³³⁻²¹ hua²³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Báng-kah
    • Tâi-lô: Báng-kah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bafngkaq
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /baŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /baŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kaʔ³²/

Proper noun

萬華

1. (～區) Wanhua (a district of Taipei, Taiwan)

Synonyms

• (historical or Min Nan) 艋舺 (Měngjiǎ)

References

• “Entry #34004”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.