五保

Chinese

		five	to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee; to maintain; hold or keep; to guard
trad. (五保)		五	保
simp. ^#(五保)		五	保

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wǔbǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄨˇ ㄅㄠˇ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gou³ bor³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wǔbǎo [Phonetic: wúbǎo]
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˇ ㄅㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǔbǎo
  - Wade–Giles: wu³-pao³
  - Yale: wǔ-bǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuubao
  - Palladius: убао (ubao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴⁻³⁵ pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gou³ bor³ [Phonetic: gou⁵ bor³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gô-bô̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔu⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ pɒ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gou³ bor³ [Phonetic: gou⁵ bor³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔu³³²⁻²¹ pɒ³³²/

Noun

五保

(Mainland China) a rural welfare system in China providing five basic guarantees: food, clothing, housing, medical care, and burial services (or education for orphans)

Derived terms

五保戶／五保户 (wǔbǎohù)

References

李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 40.