西澳

Chinese

		west	deep bay; cove; bay deep bay; cove; bay; harbour; Australia (abbrev.); Macao
trad. (西澳)		西	澳
simp. ^#(西澳)		西	澳

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xī'Ào

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹ ou³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xī'Ào
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Si-ào
  - Wade–Giles: Hsi¹-ao⁴
  - Yale: Syī-àu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shiaw
  - Palladius: Сиао (Siao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ ˀɑʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sai¹ ou³
  - Yale: sāi ou
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹ ou³
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei¹ ou³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵ ou̯³³/

Proper noun

西澳

(～州) short for 西澳大利亞／西澳大利亚 (Xī-Àodàlìyà): Western Australia (a state of Australia, occupying the western third of the continent; a former British colony until 1901)
- 1904, Liang Qichao, 新大陸遊記 [Travel Notes of the New Continent], 廣智書局, published 1907, page 8:
  
  澳洲之西澳、南澳兩省，限能解英語五十句以上者，乃可登陸。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  澳洲之西澳、南澳两省，限能解英语五十句以上者，乃可登陆。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  Àozhōu zhī Xī'ào, Nán'ào liǎng shěng, xiàn néng jiě yīngyǔ wǔshí jù yǐshàng zhě, nǎi kě dēnglù. [Pinyin]
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