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
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): nang² cyong¹ / nang² cyeng¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): Lâm-chhiong / Lâm-chhiang

  (Teochew, Peng'im): nam⁵ ciang¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶noe-tshaon

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• 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:

      edit edit 南昌 男娼

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Nàm-chhông
    • Hakka Romanization System: nam^ˇ cong^ˊ
    • 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/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: nang² cyong¹ [Phonetic: nang⁵ cyong¹]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: Náng-chio̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naŋ¹³⁻²¹ t͡sʰyɒŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: nang² cyeng¹ [Phonetic: nang⁵ cyeng¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naŋ¹³⁻²¹ t͡sʰyøŋ⁵³³/
• 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
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶noe-tshaon
    • MiniDict: noe^去 tshaon
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³noe-tshaan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /nø²² t͡sʰɑ̃⁴⁴/

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• 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

1. (～市) Nanchang (a prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, China)
2. (～縣) Nanchang (a county of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China)
3. (～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)