不夜城

Chinese

		open twenty-four seven	city walls; city; town
simp. and trad. (不夜城)		不夜	城

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùyèchéng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄧㄝˋ ㄔㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ je⁶ sing⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-iā-siâⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùyèchéng [Phonetic: búyèchéng]
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄧㄝˋ ㄔㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùyèchéng
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-yeh⁴-chʻêng²
  - Yale: bù-yè-chéng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buyehcherng
  - Palladius: буечэн (buječɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ jɛ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ je⁶ sing⁴
  - Yale: bāt yeh sìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ je⁶ sing⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yé⁶ xing⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jɛː²² sɪŋ²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-iā-siâⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: put-iā-siânn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: put'iaxsviaa
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ia²²⁻²¹ siã²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ ia⁴¹⁻²² siã²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ ia²²⁻²¹ siã¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ia³³⁻¹¹ siã²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ia³³⁻²¹ siã²³/

Noun

不夜城

city that never sleeps; nightless city (Classifier: 座 m)
nighttime entertainment quarter (Classifier: 座 m)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
不	夜	城
ふ Grade: 4	や Grade: 2	じょう Grade: 4
on'yomi

Noun

不(ふ)夜(や)城(じょう) • (fuyajō)

a city that never sleeps
nighttime entertainment quarter

References

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.