芭芭拉

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (芭芭拉)		芭	芭	拉
simp. ^#(芭芭拉)		芭	芭	拉
alternative forms		巴巴拉

Etymology

Borrowed from English Barbara.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Bābālā

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄚㄅㄚㄌㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹ baa¹ laai¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Bābālā
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄚㄅㄚㄌㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Babala
  - Wade–Giles: Pa¹-pa¹-la¹
  - Yale: Bā-bā-lā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Babalha
  - Palladius: Бабала (Babala)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ pä⁵⁵ lä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: baa¹ baa¹ laai¹
  - Yale: bā bā lāai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹ baa¹ laai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ba¹ ba¹ lai¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵ paː⁵⁵ laːi̯⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    巴巴拉
    芭芭拉

Proper noun

芭芭拉

A transliteration of the English female given name Barbara.

References

Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Barbara 芭芭拉 [英]”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 197.

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