新月沃土
Chinese
| new moon; the first crescent moon | fertile soil; fertile land; fertile ground | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (新月沃土) | 新月 | 沃土 | |
| simp. #(新月沃土) | 新月 | 沃土 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Pinyin): Xīnyuè Wòtǔ
- (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ ㄩㄝˋ ㄨㄛˋ ㄊㄨˇ
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: Xīnyuè Wòtǔ
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ ㄩㄝˋ ㄨㄛˋ ㄊㄨˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Sinyuè Wòtǔ
- Wade–Giles: Hsin1-yüeh4 Wo4-tʻu3
- Yale: Syīn-ywè Wò-tǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shinyueh Wohtuu
- Palladius: Синьюэ Воту (Sinʹjue Votu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕin⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ wɔ⁵¹ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Proper noun
新月沃土
- (historical) Fertile Crescent (a crescent-shaped geographic region of fertile land in the Middle East in Western Asia, stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine)