巴里坤

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (巴里坤)		巴	里	坤

Etymology

Borrowed from Manchu ᠪᠠᡵ
ᡴᡠᠨ (bar kun), from Written Oirat ᡋᠠᠷ
ᡍᡉᠯ (bar kül); may be ultimately derived from a Turkic word in the form of *bars-köl meaning "tiger lake" (Li, 1999). Compare Chagatai بار‌کول (bār-kȫl), Uyghur باركۆل / Баркөл (Barköl), Kazakh باركول / Баркөл (Barköl).

Compare 婆悉 (MC ba sit) in 婆悉海, the Tang dynasty name for Barkol Lake, and perhaps 蒲類 (OC *baː ruds), the name of an ancient kingdom near Barkol Lake during the Han dynasty (ibid.).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bālǐkūn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ㄌㄧˇ ㄎㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹ lei⁵ kwan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bālǐkūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄌㄧˇ ㄎㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Balǐkun
    • Wade–Giles: Pa¹-li³-kʻun¹
    • Yale: Bā-lǐ-kwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Baliikuen
    • Palladius: Баликунь (Balikunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baa¹ lei⁵ kwan¹
    • Yale: bā léih kwān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹ lei⁵ kwan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹ léi⁵ kuen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵ lei̯¹³ kʷʰɐn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

巴里坤

1. (～哈薩克自治縣, ～縣) Barköl, Barkol (an autonomous county of Hami, Xinjiang, China)
2. (～鎮) Barkol (a town in Barkol County, Hami, Xinjiang, China)

Synonyms

• (Barkol County): (old name) 鎮西／镇西 (Zhènxī)
• 巴爾庫勒／巴尔库勒 (Bā’ěrkùlè) (Qing-era strict Manchu–Oirat transliteration)