澀谷

See also: 澁谷, 渋谷, and 涩谷

Chinese

		grating (of surfaces); tart; acerbic	valley
trad. (澀谷)		澀	谷
simp. (涩谷)		涩	谷
alternative forms		涉谷

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 渋(しぶ)谷(や) (Shibuya). The popular Cantonese reading is based on reading 渋 as the graphically similar 涉 (sip3).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Sègǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄜˋ ㄍㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sip³ guk¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷seq-koq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Sègǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄜˋ ㄍㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Sègǔ
  - Wade–Giles: Sê⁴-ku³
  - Yale: Sè-gǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sehguu
  - Palladius: Сэгу (Sɛgu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɤ⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sip³ guk¹
  - Yale: sip gūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sip⁸ guk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: xib³ gug¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːp̚³ kʊk̚⁵/

Note: As 涉谷.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷seq-koq
  - MiniDict: seh^入 koh
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴seq-koq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /səʔ³³ koʔ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

澀谷

(～區) Shibuya (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan)
an orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 渋谷, Shibuya