必珠卜

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (必珠卜)		必	珠	卜

Etymology

Borrowed from English Pittsburgh, via Cantonese.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bìzhūbǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄓㄨ ㄅㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bit¹ zyu¹ buk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bìzhūbǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄓㄨ ㄅㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Bìjhubǔ
    • Wade–Giles: Pi⁴-chu¹-pu³
    • Yale: Bì-jū-bǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Bihjubuu
    • Palladius: Бичжубу (Bičžubu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ pu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bit¹ zyu¹ buk¹
    • Yale: bīt jyū būk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁷ dzy¹ buk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bid¹ ju¹ bug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːt̚⁵ t͡syː⁵⁵ pʊk̚⁵/

Proper noun

必珠卜

1. (obsolete) Pittsburgh (a city in Pennsylvania, United States)

   • 吳伯鰲為必珠卜中國國民黨分部正部長[…] [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     吴伯鳌为必珠卜中国国民党分部正部长[…] [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1913, 孫中山《委任吳伯羣等職務狀》[1]

     Wú Bó'áo wéi Bìzhūbǔ Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng Fēnbù Zhèngbùzhǎng […] [Pinyin]

     Wu Bo'ao was the Chief of the Pittsburgh branch of the Nationalist Party of China [...]

   • 必珠卜者，鋼鐵大王卡匿奇之老營也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     必珠卜者，钢铁大王卡匿奇之老营也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1919, 梁啟超《新大陸遊記》

     Bìzhūbǔ zhě, gāngtiě dàwáng Kǎnìqí zhī lǎoyíng yě. [Pinyin]

     Pittsburgh was where the king of steel, [Andrew] Carnegie once worked.

Synonyms

• 匹茲堡／匹兹堡 (Pǐzībǎo)