千葉

Chinese

		thousand	leaf; page
trad. (千葉)		千	葉
simp. (千叶)		千	叶

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 千(ち)葉(ば) (Chiba).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Qiānyè

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹ jip⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Qiānyè
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Cianyè
  - Wade–Giles: Chʻien¹-yeh⁴
  - Yale: Chyān-yè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Chianyeh
  - Palladius: Цянье (Cjanʹje)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ jɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cin¹ jip⁶
  - Yale: chīn yihp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹ jip⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qin¹ yib⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵ jiːp̚²/

Proper noun

千葉

(～縣) Chiba (a prefecture of Japan)
(～市) Chiba (the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
千	葉
ち Grade: 1	は > ば Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ちば [chíꜜbà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiba̠]

Proper noun

千(ち)葉(ば) • (Chiba)

Chiba (the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan)
Chiba (a prefecture of Japan)
a surname

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN