亞丁

See also: 亚丁

Chinese

		second; inferior; Asia	4th heavenly stem; man; people 4th heavenly stem; man; people; little cube; surname
trad. (亞丁)		亞	丁
simp. (亚丁)		亚	丁

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Yàdīng, Yǎdīng

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˋ ㄉㄧㄥ, ㄧㄚˇ ㄉㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): aa³ ding¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): A-teng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Yàdīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˋ ㄉㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yàding
  - Wade–Giles: ya⁴-ting¹
  - Yale: yà-dīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yahding
  - Palladius: ядин (jadin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä⁵¹ tiŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, common variant)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Yǎdīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˇ ㄉㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yǎding
  - Wade–Giles: ya³-ting¹
  - Yale: yǎ-dīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeading
  - Palladius: ядин (jadin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä²¹⁴⁻²¹ tiŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: aa³ ding¹
  - Yale: a dīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: aa³ ding¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: a³ ding¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /aː³³ tɪŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: A-teng
  - Tâi-lô: A-ting
  - Phofsit Daibuun: a'defng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /a⁴⁴⁻²² tiɪŋ⁴⁴/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English Aden; attested as early as 1844 in 萬國地理全集 by German missionary Karl Gützlaff.

Proper noun

亞丁

Aden (a port city, the largest city in Yemen; the former capital of South Yemen)
- 1848, 徐繼畬 [Xu Jiyu], editor, 瀛寰志略, volume 3, page 40:
  
  亞丁，小島也，在紅海口門之外，現為英人所據。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  亚丁，小岛也，在红海口门之外，现为英人所据。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  Yàdīng, xiǎo dǎo yě, zài Hónghǎi kǒu mén zhīwài, xiàn wéi yīngrén suǒ jù. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

亞丁灣 / 亚丁湾 (Yàdīngwān)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

亞丁

Yading (a natural reserve in Daocheng, Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China)