# 南昌
## Chinese

* 南昌 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 南昌 (Cantonese)
* 南昌 (Classical)
* 南昌 (Gan)
* Nàm-chhông-sṳ (Hakka)
* Nàng-chiŏng (Eastern Min)
* Lâm-chhiong-chhī (Southern Min)
* 南昌市 (Wu)

### Etymology

Attested in the Book of Han as the name of a county and the seat of Yuzhang Commandery (豫章郡, a commandery in present-day Jiangxi) since no later than 2 CE.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Nánchāng
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄔㄤ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): naam$^4$ coeng$^1$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): Nàm-chhông
    (Meixian, Guangdong): nam$^2$ cong$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): Nàng-chuŏng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): nang$^2$ cyong$^1$ / nang$^2$ cyeng$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): Lâm-chhiong / Lâm-chhiang
    (Teochew, Peng'im): nam$^5$ ciang$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$noe-tshaon
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Nánchāng
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄔㄤ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: Nánchang
*** Wade–Giles: Nan$^2$-chʻang$^1$
*** Yale: Nán-chāng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nanchang
*** Palladius: Наньчан (Nanʹčan)
*** Sinological IPA : /nän³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: naam$^4$ coeng$^1$
*** Yale: nàahm chēung
*** Cantonese Pinyin: naam$^4$ tsoeng$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: nam$^4$ cêng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /naːm²¹ t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/
*** Homophones: $^{edit}$南昌 男娼
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Nàm-chhông
*** Hakka Romanization System: nam$^ˇ$ cong$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: nam$^2$ cong$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /nam¹¹ t͡sʰoŋ²⁴/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: nam$^2$ cong$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /nam¹¹ t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: Nàng-chuŏng
*** Sinological IPA : /nˡaŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ $^{(t͡sʰ-)}$ʒuoŋ⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: nang$^2$ cyong$^1$ [Phonetic: nang$^5$ cyong$^1$]
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: Náng-chio̤ng
*** Sinological IPA : /naŋ¹³⁻²¹ t͡sʰyɒŋ⁵³³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: nang$^2$ cyeng$^1$ [Phonetic: nang$^5$ cyeng$^1$]
*** Sinological IPA : /naŋ¹³⁻²¹ t͡sʰyøŋ⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâm-chhiong
*** Tâi-lô: Lâm-tshiong
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lamchiofng
*** IPA (Taipei): /lam²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /lam²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lam²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰiɔŋ³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /lam²³⁻³³ t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâm-chhiang
*** Tâi-lô: Lâm-tshiang
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lamchiafng
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /lam¹³⁻²² t͡sʰiaŋ⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: nam$^5$ ciang$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: nâm tshiang
*** Sinological IPA : /nam⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sʰiaŋ³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$noe-tshaon
*** MiniDict: noe$^去$ tshaon
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$noe-tshaan
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /nø²² t͡sʰɑ̃⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: nom tsyhang
Rime :
| Character | 南 | 昌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 泥 (8) | 昌 (24) |
| Final (韻) | 覃 (159) | 陽 (105) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | III |
| Fanqie | 那含切 | 尺良切 |
| Baxter | nom | tsyhang |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /nʌm/ | /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /nəm/ | /t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /nɒm/ | /t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /nəm/ | /cʰɨaŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /nᴀm/ | /t͡ɕʰiaŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /nɒm/ | /t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /năm/ | /t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | nán | chāng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | naam$^4$ | coeng$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*nuːm tʰjaŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 南 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | nán |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ nom › |
| Old Chinese | /*nˁ[ə]m/ |
| English | south |
| 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 | 南 | 昌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 9355 | 1249 |
| Phonetic component | 南 | 昌 |
| Rime group | 侵 | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 南 | 昌 |
| Old Chinese | /*nuːm/ | /*tʰjaŋ/ |

### Proper noun

南昌
* (～市) Nanchang (a prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, China)
* (～縣) Nanchang (a county of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China)
* (～村) Nanchang (a village in Wanquan, Honghu, Jingzhou, Hubei, China)

#### Synonyms

* (city): 豫章 (Yùzhāng) (archaic)

#### Derived terms

* 八一南昌起義 / 八一南昌起义 (Bā-Yī Nánchāng Qǐyì)
* 南昌起義 / 南昌起义 (Nánchāng Qǐyì)