溫哥華島

Chinese

		phonetic (Vancouver)	island
trad. (溫哥華島/温哥華島)		溫哥華/温哥華	島
simp. (温哥华岛)		温哥华	岛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Wēngēhuá Dǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣ ㄍㄜ ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄉㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan¹ go¹ waa⁴ dou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Wēngēhuá Dǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣ ㄍㄜ ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄉㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Wungehuá Dǎo
    • Wade–Giles: Wên¹-ko¹-hua² Tao³
    • Yale: Wēn-gē-hwá Dǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Uengehwa Dao
    • Palladius: Вэньгэхуа Дао (Vɛnʹgɛxua Dao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən⁵⁵ kɤ⁵⁵ xu̯ä³⁵ tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wan¹ go¹ waa⁴ dou²
    • Yale: wān gō wàh dóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan¹ go¹ waa⁴ dou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen¹ go¹ wa⁴ dou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn⁵⁵ kɔː⁵⁵ waː²¹ tou̯³⁵/

Proper noun

溫哥華島

1. Vancouver Island (a large island of British Columbia, Canada)
   • 1904, Liang Qichao, 新大陸遊記 [Travel Notes of the New Continent], 廣智書局, published 1907, page 2:

     二月初六凌晨，舟入加拿大屬溫哥華島之海口，兩岸青山，如送如迎，左英屬，右美屬，皆秀麗，灌木如莽。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     二月初六凌晨，舟入加拿大属温哥华岛之海口，两岸青山，如送如迎，左英属，右美属，皆秀丽，灌木如莽。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     Èryuè chū liù língchén, zhōu rù Jiānádà shǔ Wēngēhuá Dǎo zhī hǎikǒu, liǎng'àn qīngshān, rú sòng rú yíng, zuǒ Yīng shǔ, yòu Měi shǔ, jiē xiùlì, guànmù rú mǎng. [Pinyin]

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