三藩市

Chinese

		Three Feudatories	city
trad. (三藩市)		三藩	市
simp. #(三藩市)		三藩	市

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English San Francisco.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Sānfānshì, Sānfánshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄢ ㄈㄢ ㄕˋ, ㄙㄢ ㄈㄢˊ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): saam¹ faan⁴ si⁵

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): lham¹ fan³ si^4*

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Sānfānshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄈㄢ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Sanfanshìh
    • Wade–Giles: San¹-fan¹-shih⁴
    • Yale: Sān-fān-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanfanshyh
    • Palladius: Саньфаньши (Sanʹfanʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ fän⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Sānfánshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄈㄢˊ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Sanfánshìh
    • Wade–Giles: San¹-fan²-shih⁴
    • Yale: Sān-fán-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanfarnshyh
    • Palladius: Саньфаньши (Sanʹfanʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ fän³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saam¹ faan⁴ si⁵
    • Yale: sāam fàahn síh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saam¹ faan⁴ si⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: sam¹ fan⁴ xi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːm⁵⁵ faːn²¹ siː¹³/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: lham¹ fan³ si^4*
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬam³³ fan²² si²¹⁻²¹⁵/

Proper noun

三藩市

1. (～, formerly ～埠) (especially Cantonese) San Francisco (a city in California, United States)

Synonyms

• 三藩 (Sānfān)
• (obsolete) 山藩市 (Shānfānshì), 三凡市 (Sānfánshì)

Dialectal synonyms of 舊金山 (“San Francisco”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	舊金山
	Singapore	三藩市, 舊金山
Cantonese	Hong Kong	三藩市, San Fran
	Taishan	舊金山, 三藩市
	Kaiping (Chikan)	大埠