首里

Chinese

		head; chief; first (occasion) head; chief; first (occasion); first (thing); measure word for poems	li, a Chinese unit of length
simp. and trad. (首里)		首	里
anagram		里首

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Shǒulǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄡˇ ㄌㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sau² lei⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵seu-li

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Shǒulǐ [Phonetic: shóulǐ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄡˇ ㄌㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Shǒulǐ
  - Wade–Giles: Shou³-li³
  - Yale: Shǒu-lǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shooulii
  - Palladius: Шоули (Šouli)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sau² lei⁵
  - Yale: sáu léih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sau² lei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: seo² léi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³⁵ lei̯¹³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵seu-li
  - MiniDict: seu^去 li
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²seu-li
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sɤ³³ li⁴⁴/

Proper noun

首里

Shuri (a city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
(historical) (～城) Shuri (the capital of the Ryūkyū Kingdom)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
首	里
しゅ Grade: 2	り Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

Borrowed from Okinawan 首里 (Shuri), an earlier form of 首里 (Sui).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しゅり [shúꜜrì] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [ɕɨɾʲi]

Proper noun

首(しゅ)里(り) • (Shuri) ^{←しゆり (Syuri)^?}

Shuri (a city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
(historical) Shuri (the capital of the Ryūkyū Kingdom)

Okinawan

Kanji in this term
首	里
Grade: 2	Grade: 2

Pronunciation

(Shuri) IPA^(key): /sjui/

Proper noun

首里(すい) (Sui)

Shuri, a settlement in Okinawa, formerly the capital of the Ryukyu kingdom

Synonyms

首里うぇー国