"Poly" meaning in Chinese

See Poly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /pʰɔː⁵⁵ liː³⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /pʰɔː⁵⁵ liː³⁵/ Chinese transliterations: po¹ li² [Cantonese, Jyutping], pō lí [Cantonese, Yale], po¹ li² [Cantonese, Pinyin], po¹ li² [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Etymology: Clipping of English PolyU, short for polytechnic university. Etymology templates: {{clipping|yue|nocap=}} Clipping, {{der|yue|en|PolyU}} English PolyU, {{yue-etym-clip-en|PolyU|nodot=1}} Clipping of English PolyU, {{m|en|polytechnic university}} polytechnic university Head templates: {{head|zh|pn}} Poly
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, informal) PolyU; Hong Kong Polytechnic University Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong, informal Synonyms: 理大 (Lǐdà)

Download JSON data for Poly meaning in Chinese (1.8kB)

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