Talk:港

Mandarin pronuncation

I have retrieved the audio file File:Zh-gang.ogg because it is gāng rather than gǎng. Compare it with File:Zh-gāng.ogg and File:Zh-gangwèi.ogg. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 03:08, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Unusual romanization

There are two unusual romanizations for a location name in Taiwan that I have seen that seem to be related to this character- Luchiang and Lo-kiang, both seemingly romanizations for 鹿港 (Lùgǎng). Where's the 'i' from? See the Lukang, Changhua page for details. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 22:27, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

@Justinrleung It looks like I must have stumbled upon another situation like that at Talk:津. 北港 (Beigang) and the 北港溪 in Yunlin, Taiwan are written as Pei-chiang and Pei-chiang Ch'i on the 'File:Txu-oclc-6557994-index-451.jpg' map- they seem to be reading 港 as some form of 'jiang' (Hanyu Pinyin). I couldn't find any reference that mentions this reading. ([1]) Do you have any ideas about what this is? Thanks for any help.

--Geographyinitiative (talk) 23:04, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Looks like beifangization of a southern pronunciation similar to 江. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 23:09, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative: I'm not sure where exactly the jiǎng pronunciation might be used. Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian proscribes jiǎng - which probably means some people do pronounce it as jiǎng, at least in certain contexts. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 23:25, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

I didn't even think to look! --Geographyinitiative (talk) 23:29, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Rough draft for future additional sentence on current usage notes: "Transliterations of geographical terms from Chinese characters into English using Wade-Giles has sometimes made use of this pronunciation, for instance, Sigang (西港 (Xīgǎng)), Tainan, Taiwan has been transliterated as Hsi-chiang (would be written as Xijiang when transliterated via Hanyu Pinyin)." --Geographyinitiative (talk) 01:08, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: November 2019

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Japanese: 港 Compounds

Is 港澳 really a valid Japanese kanji phrase? I don't really know Japanese, but not every Chinese word should be a Japanese word. Hkbusfan (talk)

"Should" is an interesting word.  :) FWIW, the term appears much more common in Japanese as part of larger compounds, but google:"港澳は" shows enough valid, albeit rare, use as a standalone to meet our WT:CFI. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 19:09, 11 November 2019 (UTC)