城府

城府

Chinese

		city walls; city; town	prefecture; mansion
simp. and trad. (城府)		城	府
anagram		府城

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chéngfǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ ㄈㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing⁴ fu²
• Min Nan (POJ): siâⁿ-hú / sêng-hú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chéngfǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ ㄈㄨˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cherngfuu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing⁴ fu²
    • Yale: sìhng fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁴ fu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing⁴ fu²
    • IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²¹ fuː³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâⁿ-hú
    • Tâi-lô: siânn-hú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: svia'huo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiã²⁴⁻²² hu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiã¹³⁻²² hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiã²⁴⁻²² hu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sêng-hú
    • Tâi-lô: sîng-hú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: senghuo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪŋ¹³⁻²² hu⁵³/

Noun

城府

1. (literary) city and government authorities protected by walls and moats
2. (figuratively, derogatory) one's (sophisticated and indecipherable) protection of one's own thoughts

   城府很深  ―  chéngfǔ hěn shēn  ―  to be a deep one; to be designing

Derived terms

城府深密

胸無城府／胸无城府