吧城

Chinese

		phonetic	city walls; city; town
simp. and trad. (吧城)		吧	城
alternative forms		巴城

Etymology

Derived from Dutch Batavia.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bāchéng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ㄔㄥˊ

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): Pa-siâⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ba¹ sian⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bāchéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄔㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Bachéng
    • Wade–Giles: Pa¹-chʻêng²
    • Yale: Bā-chéng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Bacherng
    • Palladius: Бачэн (Bačɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, dated in Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pa-siâⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: Pa-siânn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pasviaa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pa⁴⁴⁻²² siã²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pa⁴⁴⁻³³ siã²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pa⁴⁴⁻³³ siã²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ba¹ sian⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pa siâⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa³³⁻²³ sĩã⁵⁵/

Proper noun

吧城

1. (historical or dialect) Batavia (the capital city of the Dutch East Indies); modern Jakarta
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     亞洲印度共產黨　吧城支部委員辦事處 [MSC, trad.]
     亚洲印度共产党　吧城支部委员办事处 [MSC, simp.]

     Yàzhōu Yìndù Gòngchǎndǎng, Bāchéng zhībù wěiyuán bànshìchù [Pinyin]

     Communist Party of Indonesia, Batavia Commissariat

Synonyms

• 勿礁維／勿礁维
• 巴達維亞／巴达维亚 (Bādáwéiyà)
• 八打威 (Bādǎwēi)

References

• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “pa”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 353; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 353