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Cantonese vs Wu - What's the difference?

cantonese | wu |

As nouns the difference between cantonese and wu

is that cantonese is an inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent while wu is a Chinese shaman or shamaness.

As proper nouns the difference between cantonese and wu

is that cantonese is a Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Guangdong (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide while Wu is suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence.

As an adjective Cantonese

is relating to Canton.

cantonese

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to Canton.
  • Relating to Cantonese people.
  • Relating to Cantonese language.
  • Relating to Cantonese food/cuisine.

    • Noun

    (Cantonese)
  • (countable) An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.

    • Proper noun

    (wikipedia Cantonese) (en proper noun)
  • (uncountable) A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Guangdong (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide.
  • A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language

    • Synonyms

    * (language) Yue Chinese / Yue , Cantonese language , Cantonese dialect * (dialect) Cantonese dialect , Cantonese language

    Hyponyms

    (language) * Cantonese / Cantonese dialect (the dialect of Cantonese language treated as standard) * Hoisanese / Toisanese / Taishanese * Hong Kong Cantonese (the dialect spoken in Hong Kong and Macau)

    See also

    * (yue) * Language list * Guangdong * Guangzhou

    External links

    * * English invariant nouns

    wu

    English

    (wikipedia Wu)

    Etymology 1

    From the Wade-Giles romanization of (etyl) (etyl)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (historic) Suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence:
  • # (historic) A county of imperial and Republican China around Suzhou.
  • # (historic) A commandery of imperial China around Suzhou.
  • A historic and cultural region of China around the mouth of the Yangtze River, whence:
  • # The family of Chinese languages spoken in that region, including Shanghainese and Suzhounese, the second-most spoken family after Mandarin.
  • # (historic) The kingdom ruled by the Ji family from Wuxi and then Suzhou during the Spring and Autumn period of China's Zhou dynasty.
  • # A common Chinese surname:
  • # (historic) The kingdom ruled by the Sun family from Ezhou and Nanjing during the Three Kingdoms interregnum following China's Han dynasty.
  • # (historic) The kingdom ruled by Li Zitong from Yangzhou and Hangzhou during the interregnum following China's Sui dynasty.
  • # (historic) The kingdom ruled by the Yang family from Yangzhou during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
  • # (historic) The kingdom ruled by the Qian family from Hangzhou and Shaoxing during the Ten Kingdoms interregnum following China's Tang dynasty.
    • Synonyms
    * Gusu, Helu City, Suzhou (Suzhou ) * Wuxian, Wu-hsien (county ) * Wujun, Wu-chun (commandery ) * Wu Chinese, Jiangnan, Wuyue, Jiangzhe (language family ) * Gou Wu, Gouwu, Gong Wu, Gongwu (Spring & Autumn Period realm ) * Dong Wu, Dongwu, Eastern Wu, Sun Wu (Three Kingdoms realm ) * Huainan, Hongnong, Southern Wu, Yang Wu (Ten Kingdoms realm ruled from Yangzhou ) * Wuyue (Ten Kingdoms realm ruled from Hangzhou ) * Woo (surname )

    See also

    * Suzhounese * * (wuu)

    Etymology 2

    From the Wade-Giles romanization of the (etyl) (etyl) . (The Wu Emperor) (Cao Cao)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Chinese surname
  • (historic)
    • Usage notes
    Although the Chinese usage of Wu as a posthumous name is adjectival and should properly be translated — as, e.g., "the Martial Emperor of the Han dynasty" — or treated as an epithet in a similar manner to emperors called after their era names — as, e.g., "the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty" — it is much more common to encounter them in English sources treated as proper names — as, e.g., "Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty" — despite the Chinese meaning nothing of the sort.
    Synonyms
    * Woo (surname ) * martial, war-like, etc. (royal epithet )

    Etymology 3

    From the Wade-Giles romanization of (etyl) (etyl) , etc.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Chinese surname.
    • Synonyms
    * Woo

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