南昌

Chinese

		south(ern)	prosperity abundance
simp. and trad. (南昌)		南	昌

Etymology

Attested in the Book of Han as the name of a county and the seat of Yuzhang Commandery (豫章郡, a commandery in present-day Jiangxi) since no later than 2 CE.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Nánchāng

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄔㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): naam⁴ coeng¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): Nàm-chhông

(Meixian, Guangdong): nam² cong¹
Eastern Min (BUC): Nàng-chuŏng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): Lâm-chhiong / Lâm-chhiang

(Teochew, Peng'im): nam⁵ ciang¹
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁶noe-tshaon

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Nánchāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄔㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Nánchang
  - Wade–Giles: Nan²-chʻang¹
  - Yale: Nán-chāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nanchang
  - Palladius: Наньчан (Nanʹčan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: naam⁴ coeng¹
  - Yale: nàahm chēung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: naam⁴ tsoeng¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: nam⁴ cêng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːm²¹ t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    南昌
    男娼
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Nàm-chhông
  - Hakka Romanization System: namˇ cong´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: nam² cong¹
  - Sinological IPA: /nam¹¹ t͡sʰoŋ²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: nam² cong¹
  - Sinological IPA: /nam¹¹ t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: Nàng-chuŏng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nˡaŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ^(t͡sʰ-)ʒuoŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâm-chhiong
  - Tâi-lô: Lâm-tshiong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lamchiofng
  - IPA (Taipei): /lam²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lam²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lam²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰiɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lam²³⁻³³ t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâm-chhiang
  - Tâi-lô: Lâm-tshiang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lamchiafng
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lam¹³⁻²² t͡sʰiaŋ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: nam⁵ ciang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: nâm tshiang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nam⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sʰiaŋ³³/
Wu
- (Shanghai):
  - Wugniu: ⁶noe-tshaon
  - MiniDict: noe^去 tshaon
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³noe-tshaan
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /nø²² t͡sʰɑ̃⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: nom tsyhang

Rime
Character	南	昌
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	那含切	尺良切
Baxter	nom	tsyhang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nʌm/	/t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/nəm/	/t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/nɒm/	/t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nəm/	/cʰɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/nᴀm/	/t͡ɕʰiaŋ/
Wang Li	/nɒm/	/t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/năm/	/t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nán	chāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	naam⁴	coeng¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*nuːm tʰjaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	南
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nán
Middle Chinese	‹ nom ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁ[ə]m/
English	south
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	南	昌
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9355	1249
Phonetic component	南	昌
Rime group	侵	陽
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	南	昌
Old Chinese	/*nuːm/	/*tʰjaŋ/

Proper noun

南昌

(～市) Nanchang (a prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, China)
(～縣) Nanchang (a county of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China)
(～村) Nanchang (a village in Wanquan, Honghu, Jingzhou, Hubei, China)

Synonyms

(city): 豫章 (Yùzhāng) (archaic)

Derived terms

八一南昌起義／八一南昌起义 (Bā-Yī Nánchāng Qǐyì)
南昌起義／南昌起义 (Nánchāng Qǐyì)

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