福井

Chinese

		good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname	warn; well
simp. and trad. (福井)		福	井

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 福(ふく)井(い) (Fukui).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Fújǐng

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄐㄧㄥˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹ zeng²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Fújǐng
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄐㄧㄥˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Fújǐng
  - Wade–Giles: Fu²-ching³
  - Yale: Fú-jǐng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Fwujiing
  - Palladius: Фуцзин (Fuczin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fuk¹ zeng²
  - Yale: fūk jéng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷ dzeng²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fug¹ zéng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵ t͡sɛːŋ³⁵/

Proper noun

福井

(～縣) Fukui (a prefecture of Japan)
(～市) Fukui (the capital city of Fukui Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
福	井
ふく Grade: 3	い Grade: 4
jūbakoyomi

Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ふくい [fùkúꜜì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
(Tokyo) ふくい [fùkúí] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟kɯ̟i]

Proper noun

福(ふく)井(い) • (Fukui) ^{←ふくゐ (Fukwi)^?}

Fukui (the capital city of Fukui Prefecture, Japan)
Fukui (a prefecture on the north coast of Honshu, Japan)
a surname

Derived terms

福井県(ふくいけん) (Fukui-ken)
福井市(ふくいし) (Fukui-shi)
福井藩(ふくいはん) (Fukui-han)

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN