封川

Chinese

		to confer; to grant; to seal to confer; to grant; to seal; (a measure word)	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (封川)		封	川

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Fēngchuān

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥ ㄔㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹ cyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Fēngchuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ ㄔㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Fongchuan
    • Wade–Giles: Fêng¹-chʻuan¹
    • Yale: Fēng-chwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Fengchuan
    • Palladius: Фэнчуань (Fɛnčuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung¹ cyun¹
    • Yale: fūng chyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹ tsyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung¹ qun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pjowng|pjowngH tsyhwen

Rime
Character	封	封	川
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)	鍾 (7)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III	III
Fanqie	府容切	方用切	昌緣切
Baxter	pjowng	pjowngH	tsyhwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨoŋ/	/pɨoŋH/	/t͡ɕʰiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/pioŋ/	/pioŋH/	/t͡ɕʰʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/pioŋ/	/pioŋH/	/t͡ɕʰjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puawŋ/	/puawŋH/	/cʰwian/
Li Rong	/pioŋ/	/pioŋH/	/t͡ɕʰiuɛn/
Wang Li	/pĭwoŋ/	/pĭwoŋH/	/t͡ɕʰĭwɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯woŋ/	/pi̯woŋH/	/t͡ɕʰi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēng	fèng	chuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fung1	fung3	cyun1

Proper noun

封川

1. (～縣) (historical) Fengchuan County, a former county of Guangdong administered as part of Zhaoqing Commandery (肇慶府 / 肇庆府 (Zhàoqìng fǔ)) but since merged with Kaijian County (開建縣 / 开建县) to form Fengkai County (封開縣 / 封开县).