僕歐

Chinese

		servant	phonetic
trad. (僕歐)		僕	歐
simp. (仆欧)		仆	欧

Phono-semantic matching of English boy, via Shanghainese.

Compare French boy, Vietnamese bồi, Thai บ๋อย (bɔ̌i), Khmer បោយ (baoy), Lao ໂບຍ (bōi) ― various borrowings from the English term, all meaning “(male) servant”.

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pú'ōu
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ ㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pú-ou
  - Wade–Giles: pʻu²-ou¹
  - Yale: pú-ōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pwuou
  - Palladius: пуоу (puou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu³⁵ ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: buk⁶ au¹
  - Yale: buhk āu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁹ au¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bug⁶ eo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚² ɐu̯⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wugniu: ⁸boq-eu
  - Wiktionary Romanisation: ⁵boq-eu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /boʔ¹¹ ɤ²³/

僕歐

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