寶安

Chinese

		a jewel or gem; a treasure; precious	content; calm; still content; calm; still; quiet; to pacify; peace; how
trad. (寶安)		寶	安
simp. (宝安)		宝	安

Etymology

Coined in 331 CE with the establishment of 寶安縣 (“Bao'an County”). Renamed from 新安 (Xīn'ān) in 1914.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bǎo'ān

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˇ ㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou² on¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): bo² ang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bǎo'ān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˇ ㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Bǎo-an
    • Wade–Giles: Pao³-an¹
    • Yale: Bǎu-ān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Baoan
    • Palladius: Баоань (Baoanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ˀän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bou² on¹
    • Yale: bóu ōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou² on¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou² on¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯³⁵ ɔːn⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 保安 寶安 / 宝安

• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bo² ang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pó ang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /po⁵²⁻³⁵ aŋ³³/

Proper noun

寶安

1. (～區) Bao'an (a district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)
2. (～縣) (historical) Bao'an (a county of China, established by Eastern Jin dynasty and abolished in 1979 to become Shenzhen)