華沙

See also: 华沙

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (華沙)		華	沙
simp. (华沙)		华	沙

Etymology

Borrowed from English Warsaw. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “via Northern Wu?”)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Huáshā

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄕㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁴ saa¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Hôa-sa / Hôa-see
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶wa-so

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Huáshā
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄕㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Huásha
  - Wade–Giles: Hua²-sha¹
  - Yale: Hwá-shā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hwasha
  - Palladius: Хуаша (Xuaša)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ ʂä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: waa⁴ saa¹
  - Yale: wàh sā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁴ saa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wa⁴ sa¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²¹ saː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hôa-sa
  - Tâi-lô: Huâ-sa
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoasaf
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hua²⁴⁻²² sa³³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hua²⁴⁻¹¹ sa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hua²⁴⁻²² sa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hua²³⁻³³ sa⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hôa-see
  - Tâi-lô: Huâ-see
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hua¹³⁻²² sɛ⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶wa-so
  - MiniDict: wa^去 so
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhua-so
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦua²² so⁴⁴/

Proper noun

華沙

Warsaw (a city, the capital city of Poland)