三亞
Chinese
three | second; inferior; Asia | ||
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trad. (三亞) | 三 | 亞 | |
simp. (三亚) | 三 | 亚 |
Etymology
Traditionally interpreted as derived from the river 三亞河, which was named after the fork-shaped junction (三丫) where the rivers 水蛟溪 and 半嶺水 of the river join in the city. However, this is now considered improbable as the characters 丫 and 亞 have different initial consonants in the local Hainanese dialect, making their pronunciations quite different. (Fu (2015))
Wang (2014) suggests that 三亞 is borrowed from Hlai [Term?], with 三 (Hainanese /ta¹/) translated from Hlai dax (/ta²/, “field; farmland”) and 亞 likely from the Hlai generic term for birds that appear similar to crows, particularly herons. Thus, 三亞 may mean "field with crows or herons". Note that places with 三 as the first character in their names are common in southern Hainan where the Li people, speakers of Hlai, live.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄧㄚˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Sanyà
- Wade–Giles: San1-ya4
- Yale: Sān-yà
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanyah
- Palladius: Санья (Sanʹja)
- Sinological IPA (key): /sän⁵⁵ jä⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, common variant)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄧㄚˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Sanyǎ
- Wade–Giles: San1-ya3
- Yale: Sān-yǎ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanyea
- Palladius: Санья (Sanʹja)
- Sinological IPA (key): /sän⁵⁵ jä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: saam1 aa3
- Yale: sāam a
- Cantonese Pinyin: saam1 aa3
- Guangdong Romanization: sam1 a3
- Sinological IPA (key): /saːm⁵⁵ aː³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Proper noun
(deprecated template usage) 三亞
- Sanya (a prefecture-level city in Hainan, China)
- Chinese terms derived from Hlai
- Mandarin terms with multiple pronunciations
- Chinese lemmas
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- Mandarin proper nouns
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- Chinese terms spelled with 三
- Chinese terms spelled with 亞
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