希望語

Chinese

		hope; wish; hope	speech; language; dialect speech; language; dialect; tell to
trad. (希望語)		希望	語
simp. (希望语)		希望	语
Literally: “language of hopes”.

Etymology

From Esperanto esperanto (“one who hopes”) + 語／语 (yǔ, “language, speech”), to avoid confusion about the more popular name of the artificial language called 世界語／世界语 (shìjièyǔ, “world's language”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xīwàngyǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄨㄤˋ ㄩˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xīwàngyǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄨㄤˋ ㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Siwàngyǔ
    • Wade–Giles: Hsi¹-wang⁴-yü³
    • Yale: Syī-wàng-yǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shiwanqyeu
    • Palladius: Сиванъюй (Sivanʺjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ wɑŋ⁵¹ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Proper noun

希望語

1. (rare) Esperanto (language)

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
希	望	語
き Grade: 4	ぼう Grade: 4	ご Grade: 2
on'yomi

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 希望語 / 希望语 (Xīwàngyǔ), or a compound of 希望(きぼう) (kibō, “hope”, literally “hope language”) + 語(ご) (-go, “language”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きぼーご [kìbóógó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kʲibo̞ːɡo̞]

Noun

希(き)望(ぼう)語(ご) • (Kibō-go) 

1. (rare) Esperanto (artificial language)

Synonyms

• エスペラント語(ご) (Esuperanto-Go)