布朗

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (布朗)		布	朗

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Proper noun

布朗

the Blang, a Palaungic-speaking ethnic group in Yunnan province, southwest China, as well as Burma and Thailand

Derived terms

布朗族 (Bùlǎngzú)

Etymology 2

From English Brown.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Bùlǎng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄤˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bou³ long⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Pò͘-lang

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Bùlǎng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄤˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Bùlǎng
  - Wade–Giles: Pu⁴-lang³
  - Yale: Bù-lǎng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Buhlaang
  - Palladius: Булан (Bulan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ lɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bou³ long⁵
  - Yale: bou lóhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bou³ long⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: bou³ long⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯³³ lɔːŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pò͘-lang
  - Tâi-lô: Pòo-lang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: porlafng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pɔ²¹⁻⁵³ laŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ laŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔ²¹⁻⁵³ laŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ laŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ laŋ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

布朗

a transliteration of the English surname Brown

References

Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Brown 布朗 [英、意、芬、捷、德、法、西、葡]”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 409.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English plum.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùlǎng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄤˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùlǎng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄤˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùlǎng
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-lang³
  - Yale: bù-lǎng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buhlaang
  - Palladius: булан (bulan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ lɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

布朗

(Mandarin) plum

Synonyms

(Cantonese) 布冧