三藩市

Chinese

		Three Feudatories	city
trad. (三藩市)		三藩	市
simp. ^#(三藩市)		三藩	市

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English San Francisco.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Sānfānshì, Sānfánshì

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄢㄈㄢㄕˋ, ㄙㄢㄈㄢˊ ㄕˋ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): saam¹ faan⁴ si⁵

(Taishan, Wiktionary): lham¹ fan³ si^4*

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Sānfānshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢㄈㄢㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Sanfanshìh
  - Wade–Giles: San¹-fan¹-shih⁴
  - Yale: Sān-fān-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanfanshyh
  - Palladius: Саньфаньши (Sanʹfanʹši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ fän⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Sānfánshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢㄈㄢˊ ㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Sanfánshìh
  - Wade–Giles: San¹-fan²-shih⁴
  - Yale: Sān-fán-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanfarnshyh
  - Palladius: Саньфаньши (Sanʹfanʹši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ fän³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: saam¹ faan⁴ si⁵
  - Yale: sāam fàahn síh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saam¹ faan⁴ si⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: sam¹ fan⁴ xi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːm⁵⁵ faːn²¹ siː¹³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: lham¹ fan³ si^4*
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬam³³ fan²² si²¹⁻²¹⁵/

Proper noun

三藩市

(～, formerly ～埠)^{[note 1]} (especially Cantonese) San Francisco (a city in California, United States)

Usage notes

^ Formerly referred to as 三藩市 or 三藩市埠 in an era where such cities were referred to as 埠 (equivalent to modern usage of 市; 埠 is no longer in use today), it is now known as simply 三藩市.
See also 三藩, where the resulting form 三藩市 was understood as having the optional 市 suffix.

Synonyms

三藩 (Sānfān)
(obsolete) 山藩市 (Shānfānshì), 三凡市 (Sānfánshì)

Dialectal synonyms of 舊金山 (“San Francisco”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	舊金山
Northeastern Mandarin	Singapore	三藩市, 舊金山
Cantonese	Hong Kong	三藩市, San Fran
	Taishan	舊金山, 三藩市
	Kaiping (Chikan)	大埠