莆田

Chinese

		place name	field; farm
trad. (莆田)		莆	田
simp. ^#(莆田)		莆	田

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Pútián

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pou⁴ tin⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): Phù-thièn

(Meixian, Guangdong): pu² tiên²
Eastern Min (BUC): Buò-dièng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): pou² ceng²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): Phô͘-chhân / Pô͘-chhân

(Teochew, Peng'im): pu⁵ cang⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶bu-di

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Pútián
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Pútián
  - Wade–Giles: Pʻu²-tʻien²
  - Yale: Pú-tyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Pwutyan
  - Palladius: Путянь (Putjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: pou⁴ tin⁴
  - Yale: pòuh tìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pou⁴ tin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: pou⁴ tin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰou̯²¹ tʰiːn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Phù-thièn
  - Hakka Romanization System: pu^ˇ tien^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: pu² tian²
  - Sinological IPA: /pʰu¹¹ tʰi̯en¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: pu² tiên²
  - Sinological IPA: /pʰu¹¹ tʰiɛn¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: Buò-dièng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /puo⁵³⁻³³ ^(t-)lieŋ⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: pou² ceng² [Phonetic: pou⁵ leng²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: Pó-chéng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔu¹³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)lɛŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: pou² ceng² [Phonetic: pou⁵ leng²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔu²⁴⁻²¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)lɛŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phô͘-chhân
  - Tâi-lô: Phôo-tshân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phozhaan
  - IPA (Taipei): /pʰɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰan²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɔ²³⁻³³ t͡sʰan²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰɔ¹³⁻²² t͡sʰan¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /pʰɔ²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰan²⁴/
- (Hokkien: dated in Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pô͘-chhân
  - Tâi-lô: Pôo-tshân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pozhaan
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pɔ²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰan²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: pu⁵ cang⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phû tshâng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶bu-di
  - MiniDict: bu^去 di
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³bu-di
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bu²² di⁴⁴/

Proper noun

莆田

(～市) Putian (a prefecture-level city of Fujian, China)
(～縣) (historical) Putian (a former county of Fujian, China)
(～地區) (historical) Putian (a former prefecture of Fujian, China)

Derived terms

莆田系 (pútiánxì)
莆田話 / 莆田话 (Pútiánhuà)

Descendants

→ English: Putian, Putien, P'u-t'ien

References

William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 554.