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Wu (or Woo or Wou) is also the Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname 胡 (Mandarin Hu), used in Hong Kong, and by overseas Chinese of Cantonese-speaking areas of Guangdong, Guangxi, and/or Hong Kong/Macau origin.
Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴语; traditional Chinese: 吳語; pinyin: Wúyǔ; Wugniu and IPA: 6 wu-gniu 6 [ɦu˩.nʲy˦] (Shanghainese), 2 ghou-gniu 6 [ɦou˨.nʲy˧] ()) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang province, and parts of Jiangsu province, especially south of the Yangtze River, [2] which makes up the cultural region of Wu.
Wu (Chinese: 伍; pinyin: Wǔ; Jyutping: Ng5) is a Chinese surname. It is the 89th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [ 1 ] It means ‘five’ in Chinese, an alternative form of the character 五 . [ 2 ]
The Mandarin version of Ng is sometimes romanized as Woo or Wu. In Vietnam, the corresponding surname is Ngô. In Cambodia, the corresponding surname is Oeng. [specify] A variant pronunciation for 黃/黄 in the Zhangzhou dialect of Hokkien is (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ûiⁿ) and has various transliterations, such as Oei, Oey, Uy, and Wee.
These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China), the Republic of China (Taiwan), and the Chinese diaspora overseas as provided by the authoritative governments or academic sources.
The glyph ancestral to modern 巫 is first recorded in bronze script, where it could refer to shamans or sorcerers of either sex.Modern Mandarin wu (Cantonese mouh) continues a Middle Chinese mju or mjo.
Conventional English-language usage in Chinese linguistics is to use dialect for the speech of a particular place (regardless of status), with regional groupings like Mandarin and Wu called dialect groups. [26] Other linguists choose to refer to the major groups as languages. [78]
The initial scheme was "Wu Chinese Society pinyin" (吴语协会拼音, developed around 2005), and it formed the basis of "Wugniu pinyin" (吴语学堂拼音, around 2016). Wu Chinese Society pinyin in general does not mark tones. [1] The name Wugniu comes from the Shanghainese pronunciation of 吴语. Either of them is the default ...