穀饒

Chinese

		grain; corn	to spare
trad. (穀饒/谷饒)		穀/谷	饒
simp. (谷饶)		谷	饶

Etymology

Renamed from 赤寮 (ciah4 liao5) during the Qing era after irrigation was introduced.

Teochew linguist Lin Lunlun 林倫倫 writes instead that the original name was 粟寮 (ciah4 liao5, literally “grain hut”), also written as 赤寮 (ciah4 liao5), and that 穀饒／谷饶 (gog4 riao5, literally “grain + plentiful”) is a roughly synonymous + homophonous modification of the original name.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Gǔráo

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ ㄖㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): guk¹ jiu⁴
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): gog⁴ riao⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Gǔráo
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ ㄖㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Gǔráo
    • Wade–Giles: Ku³-jao²
    • Yale: Gǔ-ráu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Guurau
    • Palladius: Гужао (Gužao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: guk¹ jiu⁴
    • Yale: gūk yìuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: guk⁷ jiu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: gug¹ yiu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊk̚⁵ jiːu̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gog⁴ riao⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kok jiâu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kok̚²⁻⁴ d͡ziau⁵⁵/

Proper noun

穀饒

1. (～鎮) Gurao (a town in Chaoyang district, Shantou, Guangdong, China)

Synonyms

• (historical) 赤寮 (Chìliáo)