華府

Chinese

		flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain	prefecture; mansion
trad. (華府)		華	府
simp. (华府)		华	府

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Huáfǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄈㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁴ fu²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hôa-hú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Huáfǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄈㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Huáfǔ
  - Wade–Giles: Hua²-fu³
  - Yale: Hwá-fǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hwafuu
  - Palladius: Хуафу (Xuafu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: waa⁴ fu²
  - Yale: wàh fú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁴ fu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: wa⁴ fu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²¹ fuː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hôa-hú
  - Tâi-lô: huâ-hú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoa'huo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hua²⁴⁻²² hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hua²⁴⁻²² hu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hua¹³⁻²² hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hua²⁴⁻¹¹ hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hua²³⁻³³ hu⁴¹/

Proper noun

華府

Alternative name for 華盛頓特區／华盛顿特区 (Huáshèngdùn Tèqū, “Washington, D.C.”).
(metonymically) government of the United States

Japanese

Kanji in this term
華	府
か Grade: S	ふ Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ka̠ɸɯ̟ᵝ]

Proper noun

華(か)府(ふ) • (Kafu) ^{←くわふ (kwafu)^?}

(obsolete) Washington, D.C. (a city, the capital city of the United States)
- 1935 March 13, 日伯新聞 (Nippaku Shinbun)‎, number 926, page 1:
  
  華(か)府(ふ)來(らい)電(でん)によれば駐(ちう)米(べい)英(えい)大(たい)使(し)リンゼー氏(し)は國(こく)務(む)省(せう)を訪(ほう)問(もん)、 […]
  Kafu raiden ni yoreba chū-Bei Ei-taishi Rinzē-shi wa kokumushō o hōmon, […]
  According to a report from Washington, British ambassador to the United States Mr Lindsay visited the Department of State, […]

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