橫濱

See also: 横浜 and 横滨

Chinese

		unruly; horizontal; across unruly; horizontal; across; (horizontal character stroke)	shore; beach; coast shore; beach; coast; bank
trad. (橫濱)		橫	濱
simp. (横滨)		横	滨

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 横浜(よこはま) (Yokohama).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Héngbīn

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄥˊ ㄅㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waang⁴ ban¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Hoâiⁿ-pin

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Héngbīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄥˊ ㄅㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Héngbin
  - Wade–Giles: Hêng²-pin¹
  - Yale: Héng-bīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Herngbin
  - Palladius: Хэнбинь (Xɛnbinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤŋ³⁵ pin⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: waang⁴ ban¹
  - Yale: wàahng bān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waang⁴ ban¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wang⁴ ben¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːŋ²¹ pɐn⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hoâiⁿ-pin
  - Tâi-lô: Huâinn-pin
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hvoai'pyn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /huãi²⁴⁻²² pin⁴⁴/

Proper noun

橫濱

Yokohama (the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (橫濱):

→ Vietnamese: Hoành Tân (橫濱)

References

Barclay, Thomas (1923) “hoâiⁿ”, in Supplement to Dictionary of the Amoy Colloquial Language (overall work in Hokkien and English), Shanghai: The Commercial Press, Limited, page 66

Japanese

Kanji in this term
橫	濱
よこ Jinmeiyō	はま Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 橫濱 – see the following entry.

【横浜よこはま】

[proper noun] Yokohama (the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)

[proper noun] a surname

(This term, 橫濱, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)