巴里坤

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (巴里坤)		巴	里	坤

Etymology

Borrowed from Manchu ᠪᠠᡵ
ᡴᡠᠯ (bar kul), from Written Oirat ᡋᠠᠷ
ᡍᡉᠯ (bar kül); may be ultimately derived from a Turkic word in the form of *bars-köl meaning "tiger lake" (Li, 1999). Compare Chagatai بار‌کول (bār-kȫl), Uyghur باركۆل / Баркөл (Barköl), Kazakh باركول / Баркөл (Barköl).

Compare 婆悉 (MC ba sit) in 婆悉海, the Tang dynasty name for Barkol Lake, and perhaps 蒲類 (OC *baː ruds), the name of an ancient kingdom near Barkol Lake during the Han dynasty (ibid.).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Bālǐkūn

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄚㄌㄧˇ ㄎㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹ lei⁵ kwan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Bālǐkūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄚㄌㄧˇ ㄎㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Balǐkun
  - Wade–Giles: Pa¹-li³-kʻun¹
  - Yale: Bā-lǐ-kwūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Baliikuen
  - Palladius: Баликунь (Balikunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: baa¹ lei⁵ kwan¹
  - Yale: bā léih kwān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹ lei⁵ kwan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ba¹ léi⁵ kuen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵ lei̯¹³ kʷʰɐn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

巴里坤

(～哈薩克自治縣, ～縣) Barköl, Barkol (an autonomous county of Hami, Xinjiang autonomous region, China)
(～鎮) Barkol (a town in Barkol County, Hami, Xinjiang autonomous region, China)
(～湖) Barkol, Barkol Lake (a lake in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)

Synonyms

(Barkol County): (old name) 鎮西／镇西 (Zhènxī)
巴爾庫勒／巴尔库勒 (Bā’ěrkùlè) (Qing-era strict Manchu–Oirat transliteration)