牡丹江

Chinese

		tree peony; marlberry	river
simp. and trad. (牡丹江)		牡丹	江

Etymology

牡丹 (mǔdān) is a phono-semantic matching of Manchu ᠮᡠᡩᠠᠨ (mudan, “bend”), in the Manchu name for the river ᠮᡠᡩᠠᠨ
ᡠᠯᠠ (mudan ula, “river of bends”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Mǔdānjiāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˇ ㄉㄢ ㄐㄧㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maau⁵ daan¹ gong¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Bó͘-tan-kang

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Mǔdānjiāng → Mǔdanjiāng (toneless variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ ㄉㄢ ㄐㄧㄤ → ㄇㄨˇ ˙ㄉㄢ ㄐㄧㄤ (toneless variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Mǔdånjiang
    • Wade–Giles: Mu³-tan⁵-chiang¹
    • Yale: Mǔ-dan-jyāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Muu.danjiang
    • Palladius: Муданьцзян (Mudanʹczjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tän⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/ → /mu²¹⁴ d̥än⁴ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maau⁵ daan¹ gong¹
    • Yale: máauh dāan gōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maau⁵ daan¹ gong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mao⁵ dan¹ gong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːu̯¹³ taːn⁵⁵ kɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bó͘-tan-kang
    • Tâi-lô: Bóo-tan-kang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bofdankafng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tan⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tan³³ kaŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tan⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tan⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tan⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

牡丹江

1. Mudan (a river in Heilongjiang, China)
2. (～市) Mudanjiang (a prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China)

Descendants

• → English: Mudanjiang, Mu-tan-chiang