城府

Chinese

		city walls; city; town	prefecture; mansion
simp. and trad. (城府)		城	府
anagram		府城

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chéngfǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ ㄈㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sing⁴ fu²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siâⁿ-hú / sêng-hú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chéngfǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ ㄈㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chéngfǔ
  - Wade–Giles: chʻêng²-fu³
  - Yale: chéng-fǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cherngfuu
  - Palladius: чэнфу (čɛnfu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sing⁴ fu²
  - Yale: sìhng fú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁴ fu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: xing⁴ fu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²¹ fuː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâⁿ-hú
  - Tâi-lô: siânn-hú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: svia'huo
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiã²⁴⁻²² hu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiã¹³⁻²² hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiã²⁴⁻²² hu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sêng-hú
  - Tâi-lô: sîng-hú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: senghuo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² hu⁵³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪŋ¹³⁻²² hu⁵³/

Noun

城府

(literary) city and government authorities protected by walls and moats
(figurative, derogatory) one's (sophisticated and indecipherable) protection of one's own thoughts
城府很深 ― chéngfǔ hěn shēn ― to be a deep one; to be designing

Derived terms

城府深密
胸無城府／胸无城府 (xiōngwúchéngfǔ)

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