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

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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

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 Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Van-fà
  - Hakka Romanization System: van fa^ˇ
  - 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

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

Synonyms

(historical or Min Nan) 艋舺 (Měngjiǎ)

References

“Entry #34004”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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