關公

關公

See also: 关公

Chinese

		to close; to shut; to turn off to close; to shut; to turn off; to concern; to involve; mountain pass	just; honorable; public just; honorable; public; common; fair; duke; mister
trad. (關公)		關	公
simp. (关公)		关	公
anagram		公關／公关

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Guān Gōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaan¹ gung¹
• Gan (Wiktionary): guan¹ gung
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Kôan-kûng
• Min Dong (BUC): Guăng-gŭng
• Min Nan (POJ): Koan-kong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Guān Gōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Guan Gong
    • Wade–Giles: Kuan¹ Kung¹
    • Yale: Gwān Gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Guan Gong
    • Palladius: Гуань Гун (Guanʹ Gun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kwän⁵⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaan¹ gung¹
    • Yale: gwāan gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaan¹ gung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guan¹ gung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷaːn⁵⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: guan¹ gung
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuan⁴² kuŋ²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Kôan-kûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: guan´ gung´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: guan¹ gung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ku̯an²⁴⁻¹¹ kuŋ²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: Guăng-gŭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuaŋ⁵⁵ ^(k-)ŋuŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koan-kong
    • Tâi-lô: Kuan-kong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koankofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuan⁴⁴⁻²² kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan³³ kɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan⁴⁴⁻²² kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuan⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔŋ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

關公

1. (honorific) Lord Guan; Guan Yu (160–219)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 關帝 (“Lord Guan; Guan Yu”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		關聖帝君, 關帝, 關公, 關聖, 武聖, 關夫子, 關帝爺, 關老爺
Mandarin	Taiwan	關帝, 關公
	Yantai (Muping)	關老爺, 關公
	Jinan	關老爺, 關公
	Luoyang	關老爺
	Lanzhou	關老爺, 關公
	Xining	關老爺
	Singapore	關公
Cantonese	Hong Kong	關公, 關二哥
	Singapore (Guangfu)	關公
Gan	Nanchang	關公, 關爺
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	恩主公, 關公
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	恩主公, 關爺
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	恩主公, 關公
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	恩主公, 關公
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	恩主公, 關公
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	恩主公, 關帝爺, 關公
Jin	Taiyuan	關老爺
Min Bei	Jian'ou	關老爺
Min Dong	Fuzhou	關老爺, 關帝, 關聖, 武聖
Min Nan	Xiamen	關帝爺, 帝君, 帝爺, 帝爺公
	Quanzhou	關帝爺, 帝爺公
	Zhangzhou	關帝爺, 帝君
	Tainan	關公, 關老爺
	Singapore (Hokkien)	關公, 關帝
	Manila (Hokkien)	帝爺公, 關公, 關帝爺
	Chaozhou	關爺
	Jieyang	關爺
Wu	Shanghai	關帝
	Suzhou	關老爺
	Hangzhou	關老爺
	Ningbo	關帝菩薩
	Wenzhou	關老爺, 關公

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (關公):

• → Vietnamese: Quan Công (關公)

Noun

關公

1. (Hong Kong, neologism, somewhat humorous) Synonym of 公關 (“public relations”).

   關公災難／关公灾难 [Cantonese]  ―  gwaan¹ gung¹ zoi¹ naan⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  public relations disaster