119
English
Etymology
Variant of 911, which see.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wən.wən.naɪn/
Proper noun
119
- The telephone number for law enforcement in Jamaica, Mozambique, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
- The telephone number for ambulance services in Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea and on Taiwan.
- 119 handles fires and medical emergencies in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea but the police have a separate number, 110.
- The telephone number for firefighting assistance in China, Bolivia, Japan, and South Korea.
- The telephone number for antiterrorist services in Afghanistan.
- (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.
Coordinate terms
Anagrams
Chinese
Etymology
119 (緊急電話冧巴) / 119 (紧急电话冧巴) on the Cantonese Wikipedia.Wikipedia zh-yue
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: yāoyāojiǔ
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄠ ㄧㄠ ㄐㄧㄡˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yaoyaojiǒu
- Wade–Giles: yao1-yao1-chiu3
- Yale: yāu-yāu-jyǒu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iauiaujeou
- Palladius: яояоцзю (jaojaoczju)
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɑʊ̯⁵⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: yīyījiǔ
- Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄧ ㄐㄧㄡˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yiyijiǒu
- Wade–Giles: i1-i1-chiu3
- Yale: yī-yī-jyǒu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iijeou
- Palladius: иицзю (iiczju)
- Sinological IPA (key): /i⁵⁵ i⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: jat1 jat1 gau2
- Yale: yāt yāt gáu
- Cantonese Pinyin: jat7 jat7 gau2
- Guangdong Romanization: yed1 yed1 geo2
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɐt̚⁵ jɐt̚⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Proper noun
119
- (People's Republic of China, Republic of China) 119: in mainland China (“People's Republic of China”) and Taiwan (“Republic of China”) the emergency telephone number for firefighting