商埠

Chinese

		commerce; consult	a jetty; port; a city a jetty; port; a city; quay
trad. (商埠)		商	埠
simp. #(商埠)		商	埠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāngbù

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄤ ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng¹ fau⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siong-po͘ / siang-po͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siang¹ bou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāngbù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄤ ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shangbù
    • Wade–Giles: shang¹-pu⁴
    • Yale: shāng-bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shangbuh
    • Palladius: шанбу (šanbu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: soeng¹ fau⁶
    • Yale: sēung fauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng¹ fau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng¹ feo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ⁵⁵ fɐu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siong-po͘
    • Tâi-lô: siong-poo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siongpof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ³³ pɔ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² pɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siang-po͘
    • Tâi-lô: siang-poo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siangpof
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² pɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siang¹ bou¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siang pou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siaŋ³³⁻²³ pou³³/

Noun

商埠

1. (historical) commercial or trading port

   • 可是大多數中國人相信，這種困難是能夠克服的；只有各大商埠的富人是失敗論者，因為他們害怕損失財產。 [MSC, trad.]
     可是大多数中国人相信，这种困难是能够克服的；只有各大商埠的富人是失败论者，因为他们害怕损失财产。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Kěshì dàduōshù Zhōngguórén xiāngxìn, zhè zhǒng kùnnán shì nénggòu kèfú de; zhǐyǒu gè dà shāngbù de fùrén shì shībàilùnzhě, yīnwèi tāmen hàipà sǔnshī cáichǎn. [Pinyin]

     But the majority of the Chinese people believe that such difficulties can be overcome; only the rich in the big port cities are defeatists because they are afraid of losing their property.

2. (specifically) treaty port