不夜城

不夜城

Chinese

		open twenty-four seven	city walls; city; town
simp. and trad. (不夜城)		不夜	城

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùyèchéng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄧㄝˋ ㄔㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ je⁶ sing⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): put-iā-siâⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bùyèchéng [Phonetic: búyèchéng]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄧㄝˋ ㄔㄥˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buyehcherng
    • IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ i̯ɛ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ je⁶ sing⁴
    • Yale: bāt yeh sìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ je⁶ sing⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yé⁶ xing⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jɛː²² sɪŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-iā-siâⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: put-iā-siânn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: put'iaxsviaa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ia²²⁻²¹ ɕiã²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ ia⁴¹⁻²² ɕiã²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ ia²²⁻²¹ ɕiã¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ia³³⁻¹¹ ɕiã²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ia³³⁻²¹ ɕiã²³/

Noun

不夜城

1. city that never sleeps; nightless city (Classifier: 座 m)
2. nighttime entertainment quarter (Classifier: 座 m)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
不	夜	城
ふ Grade: 4	や Grade: 2	じょう Grade: 6
on’yomi

Noun

不夜城 (hiragana ふやじょう, rōmaji fuyajō)

1. a city that never sleeps
2. nighttime entertainment quarter

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.