檀香山
Chinese
| mountain; hill | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (檀香山) | 檀香 | 山 | |
| simp. #(檀香山) | 檀香 | 山 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Pinyin): Tánxiāng Shān
- (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄕㄢ
- Cantonese
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: Tánxiāng Shān
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄕㄢ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Tánsiang Shan
- Wade–Giles: Tʻan2-hsiang1 Shan1
- Yale: Tán-syāng Shān
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tarnshiang Shan
- Palladius: Таньсян Шань (Tanʹsjan Šanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰän³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: taan4 hoeng1 saan1
- Yale: tàahn hēung sāan
- Cantonese Pinyin: taan4 hoeng1 saan1
- Guangdong Romanization: tan4 hêng1 san1
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaːn²¹ hœːŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: han3 hiang1 san1
- Sinological IPA (key): /han²² hiaŋ³³ san³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Proper noun
檀香山
- Honolulu (a city, the state capital of Hawaii, United States)
- (dated) Hawaii; Hawaiian Islands; Sandwich Islands
- 1841, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, Macao: S.W. Williams, page 181:
- 檀香山由粤省正東八十度餘中有十三洲一名阿哇希冣大 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
- taan4 hoeng1 saan1 jau4 jyut6 saang2 zeng3 dung1 baat3 sap6 dou6 jyu4 zung1 jau5 sap6 saam1 zau1 jat1 ming4 aa3 waa1 hei1 zeoi3 daai6 [Jyutping]
- The Sandwich Islands are situated eighty degrees due east from Canton; they are thirteen in number; the largest of them is called Hawaii.
檀香山由粤省正东八十度余中有十三洲一名阿哇希冣大 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]
- 1891, 薛福成 [Xue Fucheng], 出使英法義比四國日記, volume 6, page 36:
- 羅馬兵官有遊歷檀香山而返者述及百年以前，檀香山各島尚有土人四十萬；自華民及歐人、美人來者日多，今土番人口僅存十分之一。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- Luómǎ bīngguān yǒu yóulì Tánxiāngshān ér fǎn zhě shù jí bǎi nián yǐqián, Tánxiāngshān gè dǎo shàng yǒu tǔrén sìshí wàn; zì huámín jí Ōu rén, Měi rén lái zhě rì duō, jīn tǔfān rénkǒu jǐn cún shí fēn zhī yī. [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
罗马兵官有游历檀香山而返者述及百年以前，檀香山各岛尚有土人四十万；自华民及欧人、美人来者日多，今土番人口仅存十分之一。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]