洪武

Chinese

		big; vast; grand	martial; military
simp. and trad. (洪武)		洪	武

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Hóngwǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung⁴ mou⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Hóngwǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Hóngwǔ
    • Wade–Giles: Hung²-wu³
    • Yale: Húng-wǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Horngwuu
    • Palladius: Хунъу (Xunʺu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xʊŋ³⁵ u²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung⁴ mou⁵
    • Yale: hùhng móuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung⁴ mou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung⁴ mou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ²¹ mou̯¹³/

Proper noun

洪武 (historical)

1. (～帝) the Hongwu Emperor (the first emperor of the Ming dynasty)
2. the Hongwu era (a Chinese era name; the era of that emperor's reign, from 1368 to 1398, and as briefly restored by the Yongle Emperor in 1402)