大吉嶺

Chinese

		very auspicious; extremely lucky	mountain range
trad. (大吉嶺)		大吉	嶺
simp. (大吉岭)		大吉	岭

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English Darjeeling, from Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང (rdo rje gling).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Dàjílǐng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧˊ ㄌㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ gat¹ ling⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Dàjílǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧˊ ㄌㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Dàjílǐng
    • Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-chi²-ling³
    • Yale: Dà-jí-lǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahjyiliing
    • Palladius: Дацзилин (Daczilin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕi³⁵ liŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ gat¹ ling⁵
    • Yale: daaih gāt líhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ gat⁷ ling⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ ged¹ ling⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² kɐt̚⁵ lɪŋ¹³/

Proper noun

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1. Darjeeling

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