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A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. [1] In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, the most politically important cantons are the Swiss cantons.
For example, the Standard Chinese, and widely used Cantonese word for "guest" is 客人; kèrén; 'guest-person', but the same morphemes may be reversed in Cantonese [jɐn ha:k] versus Taishanese [ŋin hak], and Tengxian [jən hɪk]. This has been hypothesized to be the influence of Tai languages, in which modifiers normally follow nouns. [52]
"Cantonese" as used to refer to the language native to the city of Canton, which is the traditional English name of Guangzhou, was popularized by An English and Cantonese Pocket Dictionary (1859), a bestseller by the missionary John Chalmers. [6] Before 1859, this variant was often referred to in English as "the Canton dialect". [7] [6]
The English name "Canton" derived from Portuguese Cantão [6] or Cidade de Cantão, [7] a muddling of dialectical pronunciations of "Guangdong" [8] [9] (e.g., Hakka Kóng-tûng). Although it originally and chiefly applied to the walled city of Guangzhou, it was occasionally conflated with Guangdong by some authors.
An endonym / ˈ ɛ n d ə n ɪ m / (also known as autonym / ˈ ɔː t ə n ɪ m /) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their place of origin, or their language.
Canton Fair, a biannual trade fair in Canton (Guangzhou), China; Canton System, a Chinese trade policy from 1757 to 1842; Canton System (Prussia), unrelated to the above - a system of recruitment to the Prussian Army; A metonym for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, located in Canton, Ohio, US; Canton Electronics, German loudspeaker manufacturer
The word C9 should be pronounced in English "C nine", which is very similar to Cantonese si1 naai1. It is an easier form of typing the word "師奶" without changing the meaning in Cantonese. The two characters are already on the keyboard so it is much simpler to type. 7-Eleven (7–11) Se-fun(音:些粉)/ Chat1 Jai2(七仔 ）
The Customs House and the Hoppo's Headquarters at Guangzhou. Hoppo or Administrator of the Canton Customs (simplified Chinese: 粤海关部; traditional Chinese: 粵海關部; pinyin: Yuèhǎi Guānbù), [1] was the Qing dynasty official at Guangzhou (Canton) given responsibility by the emperor for controlling shipping, collecting tariffs, and maintaining order among traders in and around the ...