北川

Chinese

		north	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
trad. (北川)		北	川
simp. ^#(北川)		北	川
anagram		川北

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Běichuān

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄟˇ ㄔㄨㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bak¹ cyun¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Běichuān
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˇ ㄔㄨㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Běichuan
  - Wade–Giles: Pei³-chʻuan¹
  - Yale: Běi-chwān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Beeichuan
  - Palladius: Бэйчуань (Bɛjčuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bak¹ cyun¹
  - Yale: bāk chyūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bak⁷ tsyn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: beg¹ qun¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐk̚⁵ t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

北川

(～羌族自治縣, ～縣) Beichuan (a Qiang autonomous county in Mianyang, Sichuan, China)
an orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 北川, Kitagawa

Japanese

Kanji in this term
北	川
きた Grade: 2	かわ > がわ Grade: 1

Proper noun

北(きた)川(がわ) • (Kitagawa) ^{←きたがは (Kitagafa)^?}

a surname