薄扶林

Chinese

		thin; slight; meagre thin; slight; meagre; small; ungenerous; unkind; mean; frivolous; despise; belittle; to approach; to go near; peppermint	to support with hand; to help sb. up; to help	woods; forest
trad. (薄扶林)		薄	扶	林
simp. #(薄扶林)		薄	扶	林

Etymology

Written as 薄鳧林 in the Annals of Xin'an County (新安縣志) [1819].

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bófúlín

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ ㄈㄨˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bok^6-3 fu^4-6 lam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bófúlín
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ ㄈㄨˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Bófúlín
    • Wade–Giles: Po²-fu²-lin²
    • Yale: Bwó-fú-lín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Borfwulin
    • Palladius: Бофулинь (Bofulinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ³⁵ fu³⁵ lin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bok^6-3 fu^4-6 lam⁴
    • Yale: bok fuh làhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bok^9-8 fu^4-6 lam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bog^6-3 fu^4-6 lem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔːk̚²⁻³ fuː²¹⁻²² lɐm²¹/

Proper noun

薄扶林

1. Pok Fu Lam (an area in Hong Kong)