約旦

See also: 约旦

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (約旦)		約	旦
simp. (约旦)		约	旦

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yuēdàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝ ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joek³ daan³, joek³ daan⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): Yok-tan

  (Meixian, Guangdong): yog⁵ dan⁴

• Eastern Min (BUC): Iók-dáng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Iok-tàn / Iak-tàn / Ioh-tòaⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yuēdàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄝ ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yuedàn
    • Wade–Giles: Yüeh¹-tan⁴
    • Yale: Ywē-dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Iuedann
    • Palladius: Юэдань (Juedanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵⁵ tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: joek³ daan³, joek³ daan⁶
    • Yale: yeuk daan, yeuk daahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joek⁸ daan³, joek⁸ daan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêg³ dan³, yêg³ dan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːk̚³ taːn³³/, /jœːk̚³ taːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Yok-tan
    • Hakka Romanization System: iog` dan
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yog<sup>5</sup> dan<sup>4</sup>
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯ok̚² tan⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Yok-tan
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iog` dan
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yog⁵ dan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯ok̚² tan⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yog⁵ dan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /iɔk̚¹ tan⁵³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: Iók-dáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yoʔ²⁴⁻⁵⁵ tɑŋ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iok-tàn
    • Tâi-lô: Iok-tàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iokdaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /iɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tan¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ tan⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iak-tàn
    • Tâi-lô: Iak-tàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iakdaxn
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iak̚³²⁻⁵ tan²¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ioh-tòaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: Ioh-tuànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ioihdvoax
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɤ(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ tuã²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /io(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tuã¹¹/

Proper noun

約旦

1. Jordan (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
2. (～河) Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)

Related terms

• 喬丹／乔丹 (Qiáodān)