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Pronunciation: Wú (Pinyin) Language(s) Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean: Origin; ... Wu (or Woo or Wou) is also the Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname 胡 ...
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.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Wu Chinese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Wu Chinese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
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.
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 ...
Wu was born in Lianshui, Jiangsu province, and later moved to Huai'an. [1] [2] [3] Wu's father, Wu Rui, had a good primary education and "shown an aptitude for study", [1] but ultimately spent his life as an artisan because of his family's financial difficulties. Nevertheless, Wu Rui continued to "devote himself to literary pursuits", and as a ...
According to tradition, the Hu (胡) surname has several historical origins. First, Hu could derive from the family of Duke Hu of Chen. King Wu of Zhou (r. 1046-043 BCE) enfeoffed his son-in-law Gui Man 媯滿 (supposedly a descendant of the legendary sage king Emperor Shun) with the state of Chen (in modern Henan Province).
In the Sinosphere, the word 無, realized in Japanese and Korean as mu and in Standard Chinese as wu, [a] meaning 'to lack' or 'without', is a key term in the vocabulary of various East Asian philosophical and religious traditions, such as Buddhism and Taoism.