拉祜

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (拉祜)		拉	祜
Literally: “to drag favour from heaven”.

Etymology

Replaced older 猓黑, which had a more offensive meaning that literally means "black monkey".

The current name literally means "to drag favour or blessings from heaven", and corresponds more closely to Phono-semantic matching of Lahu Laˇhuˍ, the people's native name.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Lāhù

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄚ ㄏㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laai¹ wu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): la-hǒ͘ / la-hō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Lāhù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄚ ㄏㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Lahù
    • Wade–Giles: La¹-hu⁴
    • Yale: Lā-hù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Lhahuh
    • Palladius: Лаху (Laxu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lä⁵⁵ xu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: laai¹ wu²
    • Yale: lāai wú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laai¹ wu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: lai¹ wu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːi̯⁵⁵ wuː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: la-hǒ͘
    • Tâi-lô: la-hǒo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /la³³ hɔ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: la-hō͘
    • Tâi-lô: la-hōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: la'ho
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /la⁴⁴⁻²² hɔ²²/

Proper noun

拉祜

1. the Lahu people

Compounds

• 拉祜族 (Lāhùzú)
• 拉祜語 / 拉祜语 (Lāhùyǔ)