ㄆㄨㄣ

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (ㄆㄨㄣ)		ㄆㄨㄣ

Etymology

From Hokkien 潘 (phun).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pūn

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄨㄣ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pun
  - Wade–Giles: pʻun¹
  - Yale: pwūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: puen
  - Palladius: пунь (punʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ən⁵⁵/

Noun

ㄆㄨㄣ

(Taiwanese Mandarin, slang) dirty wastewater; used cooking oil; waste runoff

Usage notes

Loanwords from Taiwanese Hokkien are occasionally written in Bopomofo, so as to alert the reader that the word should be pronounced according to its sound in Min Nan rather than Mandarin.

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