北伐

Chinese

		north	(v) cut down; fell; (v) dispatch an expedition against (v) cut down; fell; (v) dispatch an expedition against; descend upon
trad. (北伐)		北	伐
simp. #(北伐)		北	伐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): běifá, běifā

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟˇ ㄈㄚˊ, ㄅㄟˇ ㄈㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bak¹ fat⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pak-hoa̍h

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: běifá
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˇ ㄈㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: běifá
    • Wade–Giles: pei³-fa²
    • Yale: běi-fá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beeifar
    • Palladius: бэйфа (bɛjfa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ fä³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: běifā
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˇ ㄈㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: běifa
    • Wade–Giles: pei³-fa¹
    • Yale: běi-fā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beeifa
    • Palladius: бэйфа (bɛjfa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ fä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bak¹ fat⁶
    • Yale: bāk faht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bak⁷ fat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: beg¹ fed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐk̚⁵ fɐt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pak-hoa̍h
    • Tâi-lô: pak-hua̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pakhoah
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pak̚³²⁻⁴ huaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pak̚⁵⁻²⁴ huaʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pak̚³²⁻⁵ huaʔ¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pak̚³²⁻⁴ huaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pak̚³²⁻⁴ huaʔ⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: pok bjot

Rime
Character	北	伐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	德 (131)	月 (68)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	博墨切	房越切
Baxter	pok	bjot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pək̚/	/bʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/pək̚/	/bʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/pək̚/	/biuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pək̚/	/buat̚/
Li Rong	/pək̚/	/biuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/pək̚/	/bĭwɐt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pək̚/	/bʱi̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bo	fá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bak1	faat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤək  m-pat/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯːɡ  bad/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	北	伐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	běi	fá
Middle Chinese	‹ pok ›	‹ bjot ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁək/	/*m-pat/
English	north	cut; strike; attack
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	北	伐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	414	2859
Phonetic component	北	伐
Rime group	職	月
Rime subdivision	0	3
Corresponding MC rime	北	伐
Old Chinese	/*pɯːɡ/	/*bad/

Verb

北伐

1. to fight north; to wage a punitive expedition to the north

Proper noun

北伐

1. Short for 北伐戰爭／北伐战争 (Běifá Zhànzhēng, “Northern Expedition”).

   • 十月革命紀念大會，反英大會，北伐勝利總慶祝，每鄉都有上萬的農民舉起大小旗幟，雜以扁擔鋤頭，浩浩蕩蕩，出隊示威。 [MSC, trad.]
     十月革命纪念大会，反英大会，北伐胜利总庆祝，每乡都有上万的农民举起大小旗帜，杂以扁担锄头，浩浩荡荡，出队示威。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Shíyuè Gémìng jìniàn dàhuì, fǎn Yīng dàhuì, Běifá shènglì zǒngqìngzhù, měi xiāng dōu yǒu shàngwàn de nóngmín jǔqǐ dàxiǎo qízhì, zá yǐ biǎndan chútou, hàohàodàngdàng, chū duì shìwēi. [Pinyin]

     On the anniversary of the October Revolution, at the time of the anti-British rally and of the great celebrations of the victory of the Northern Expedition, tens of thousands of peasants in every township, holding high their banners, big and small, along with their carrying-poles and hoes, demonstrated in massive, streaming columns

Derived terms

• 北伐戰爭／北伐战争 (Běifá Zhànzhēng)
• 北伐軍／北伐军

 

Korean

Hanja in this term
北	伐

Noun

北伐 • (bukbeol) (hangeul 북벌)

1. hanja form^? of 북벌 (“northern conquest; seventeenth-century Korean plans to attack Qing China; the Northern Expedition”)