牌樓

Chinese

		cards; game pieces; signboard cards; game pieces; signboard; plate; tablet	house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor
trad. (牌樓)		牌	樓
simp. (牌楼)		牌	楼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): páilóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄞˊ ㄌㄡˊ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): paai⁴ lau⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): pai³ leu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: páilóu → páilou (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄞˊ ㄌㄡˊ → ㄆㄞˊ ˙ㄌㄡ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: páilo̊u
    • Wade–Giles: pʻai²-lou⁵
    • Yale: pái-lou
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pair.lou
    • Palladius: пайлоу (pajlou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaɪ̯³⁵ loʊ̯³⁵/ → /pʰaɪ̯³⁵ loʊ̯³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: paai⁴ lau⁴
    • Yale: pàaih làuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paai⁴ lau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pai⁴ leo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːi̯²¹ lɐu̯²¹/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: pai³ leu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰai²² leu²²/

Noun

牌樓

1. (architecture) pailou (traditional style of Chinese architectural arch or gateway structure)
   • [1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary‎^[1] (in English), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 343:

     A little farther down we saw three tiny beehive stone huts, the place being called Palo, which is obviously a corruption of the Chinese p’ai-lou, and may mean that at some time in the past the Chinese advanced a border post thus far, claiming a frontier beyond the Karakoram.]

Synonyms

• 牌坊 (páifāng)

Derived terms

• 彩牌樓／彩牌楼 (cǎipáilóu)

 

Proper noun

牌樓

1. (～鎮) Pailou (a town in Dongbao district, Jingmen, Hubei, China)