華府

Chinese

		flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain	prefecture; mansion
trad. (華府)		華	府
simp. (华府)		华	府

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Huáfǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄈㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁴ fu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hôa-hú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Huáfǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄈㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Huáfǔ
    • Wade–Giles: Hua²-fu³
    • Yale: Hwá-fǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hwafuu
    • Palladius: Хуафу (Xuafu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁴ fu²
    • Yale: wàh fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁴ fu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁴ fu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²¹ fuː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hôa-hú
    • Tâi-lô: huâ-hú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoa'huo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hua²⁴⁻²² hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hua²⁴⁻²² hu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hua¹³⁻²² hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hua²⁴⁻¹¹ hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hua²³⁻³³ hu⁴¹/

Proper noun

華府

1. Alternative name for 華盛頓特區／华盛顿特区 (Huáshèngdùn Tèqū, “Washington, D.C.”).
2. (metonymically) government of the United States

Japanese

Kanji in this term
華	府
か Grade: S	ふ Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka̠ɸɯ̟ᵝ]

Proper noun

華(か)府(ふ) • (Kafu) ^{←くわふ (kwafu)?}

1. (obsolete) Washington, D.C. (a city, the capital city of the United States)
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