薄扶林

Chinese

		thin; slight; meagre thin; slight; meagre; small; ungenerous; unkind; mean; frivolous; despise; belittle; to approach; to go near; peppermint	to support with hand; to help someone up; to help	woods; forest
trad. (薄扶林)		薄	扶	林
simp. ^#(薄扶林)		薄	扶	林

Etymology

Written as 薄鳧林 in the Annals of Xin'an County (新安縣志) [1819].

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Bófúlín

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄛˊ ㄈㄨˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bok^6-3 fu^4-6 lam⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Bófúlín
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ ㄈㄨˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Bófúlín
  - Wade–Giles: Po²-fu²-lin²
  - Yale: Bwó-fú-lín
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Borfwulin
  - Palladius: Бофулинь (Bofulinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ³⁵ fu³⁵ lin³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bok^6-3 fu^4-6 lam⁴
  - Yale: bok fuh làhm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bok^9-8 fu^4-6 lam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: bog^6-3 fu^4-6 lem⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔːk̚²⁻³ fuː²¹⁻²² lɐm²¹/

Proper noun

薄扶林

Pok Fu Lam (an area of Hong Kong)