錦官城

錦官城

See also: 锦官城

Chinese

		brocade officer	(walled) city
trad. (錦官城)		錦官	城
simp. (锦官城)		锦官	城

Etymology

From a Han-era office instituted to oversee the quality and supply of the city's then-popular brocade.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Jǐnguānchéng

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄢ ㄔㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam² gun¹ sing⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: Jǐnguānchéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄢ ㄔㄥˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jiinguancherng
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ku̯än⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam² gun¹ sing⁴
    • Yale: gám gūn sìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam² gun¹ sing⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem² gun¹ xing⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐm³⁵ kuːn⁵⁵ sɪŋ²¹/

Proper noun

錦官城

1. (informal or literary, obsolete) "City of the Brocade Official", a former nickname of Chengdu, Sichuan.

Derived terms

錦城／锦城 (Jǐnchéng)