太湖
Chinese
too (much); very; extremely too (much); very; extremely; highest; greatest |
lake | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (太湖) | 太 | 湖 | |
| simp. #(太湖) | 太 | 湖 | |
| Literally: “great lake”. | |||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: Tài Hú
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˋ ㄏㄨˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Tài Hú
- Wade–Giles: Tʻai4 Hu2
- Yale: Tài Hú
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tay Hwu
- Palladius: Тай Ху (Taj Xu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ xu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: taai3 wu4
- Yale: taai wùh
- Cantonese Pinyin: taai3 wu4
- Guangdong Romanization: tai3 wu4
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaːi̯³³ wuː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Wu
Proper noun
太湖
- Lake Tai, a large freshwater lake west of Shanghai in eastern China
- (～縣) Taihu (a county of Anqing, Anhui, China)
Derived terms
- 太湖港 (Tàihúgǎng)
Further reading
- 中国地名委员会、中国文字改革委员会、国家测绘局 (25 December 1984) “中国地名汉语拼音字母拼写规则（汉语地名部分）”, in 教育部语言文字信息管理司, editor, 语言文字规范标准 (in Chinese), number 5, Beijing: The Commercial Press, published 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 450:
- 分写和连写 […]
“/”表示分写。 […]
1. 由专名和通名构成的地名，原则上专名与通名分写。
太行/山 松花/江 汾/河 太/湖 舟山/群岛 台湾/海峡