赤壁

赤壁

Chinese

		red; scarlet; bare red; scarlet; bare; naked	wall; rampart
simp. and trad. (赤壁)		赤	壁
Literally: “red cliffs”.

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Chìbì

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˋ ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cek³ bik¹
• Min Nan (POJ): Chhiah-piah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Chìbì
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˋ ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Chìhbì
    • Wade–Giles: Chʻih⁴-pi⁴
    • Yale: Chr̀-bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Chyhbih
    • Palladius: Чиби (Čibi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cek³ bik¹
    • Yale: chek bīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsek⁸ bik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: cég³ big¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛːk̚³ pɪk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhiah-piah
    • Tâi-lô: Tshiah-piah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiahpiaq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ piaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)⁵ piaʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ piaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ piaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ piaʔ³²/

Proper noun

赤壁

1. (historical) Chibi (place where the Battle of Chibi happened)
2. (～市) Chibi (a county-level city in Xianning, Hubei, China)
3. (～街道) Chibi (a subdistrict of Huangzhou district, Huanggang, Hubei, China)
4. (～鎮) Chibi (a town in Chibi, Xianning, Hubei, China)

Derived terms

赤壁鏖兵 鏖兵赤壁

赤壁之戰／赤壁之战

Descendants

• → English: Ch'ih-pi, Chibi