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榕城

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: iong5 sian5
POJ: iông-siâⁿ
Variety: chaozhou

Pronunciation note: Whether the fronting extends to the nasal-coda rime is less clearly attested than for the open rime. Verify before citing. No source located: Wikipedia's fronting list covers the nasalised-vowel rime (ĩõ) and the checked rime (ioʔ), not a true nasal-CODA rime like this one, and Learn Teochew's regional-differences section explicitly says it does not address codas at all. This value is an editorial extrapolation from the attested open-rime pattern, not independently sourced.

Meanings and usage

proper-noun: Rongcheng (district of Jieyang, Guangdong), poetic name for Fuzhou
榕城

Page gives two distinct place senses sharing this name (the Jieyang district in Guangdong vs. a poetic alternative name for Fuzhou); the Jieyang sense was assumed most relevant to the Teochew-speaking region but the page does not explicitly tie the Teochew reading to one sense.

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