阿富汗

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (阿富汗)		阿	富	汗

Etymology

From Persian افغان (afğân).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Āfùhàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄚ ㄈㄨˋ ㄏㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aa³ fu³ hon⁶ / o¹ fu³ hon⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Â-fu-hon
• Eastern Min (BUC): Ŏ̤-hô-gâng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): A-hù-hān
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹a-fu-ghoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Āfùhàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄚ ㄈㄨˋ ㄏㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Afùhàn
    • Wade–Giles: A¹-fu⁴-han⁴
    • Yale: Ā-fù-hàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Afuhhann
    • Palladius: Афухань (Afuxanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀä⁵⁵ fu⁵¹⁻⁵³ xän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aa³ fu³ hon⁶ / o¹ fu³ hon⁶
    • Yale: a fu hohn / ō fu hohn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aa³ fu³ hon⁶ / o¹ fu³ hon⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: a³ fu³ hon⁶ / o¹ fu³ hon⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aː³³ fuː³³ hɔːn²²/, /ɔː⁵⁵ fuː³³ hɔːn²²/

Note: o1 fu3 hon6 - rare.

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Â-fu-hon
    • Hakka Romanization System: a^ˊ fu hon
    • Hagfa Pinyim: a¹ fu⁴ hon⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /a²⁴⁻¹¹ fu⁵⁵ hon⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: Ŏ̤-hô-gâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /o⁵⁵⁻²¹ ^(h-)u²⁴²⁻⁵³ ^(k-)ɑŋ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: A-hù-hān
    • Tâi-lô: A-hù-hān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: a'huo'han
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /a³³ hu⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ han⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /a⁴⁴⁻²² hu²¹⁻⁵³ han²²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹a-fu-ghoe
    • MiniDict: a^平 fu ghoe
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹a-fu-hhoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /a⁵⁵ fu³³ ɦø²¹/

Proper noun

阿富汗

1. Afghanistan (A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

   • 阿富汗，即愛烏罕。其國北界布哈爾，南界俾路支，東界印度，西界波斯，東西二千餘里。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     阿富汗，即爱乌罕。其国北界布哈尔，南界俾路支，东界印度，西界波斯，东西二千余里。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1929, Zhao Erxun (lead editor), Draft History of Qing

     Āfùhàn, jí Àiwūhǎn. Qí guó běi jiè Bùhā'ěr, nán jiè Bǐlùzhī, dōng jiè Yìndù, xī jiè Bōsī, dōngxī èrqiān yú lǐ. [Pinyin]

     Afghanistan (Afuhan), is [also transcribed as] Aiwuhan. This country borders Bukhara to its north, Balochistan to its south, India to its east, and Persia to its west. It spans more than two thousand li from east to west.

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (阿富汗):

• → Vietnamese: A Phú Hãn (阿富汗)

See also

• 阿富汗尼 (āfùhànní)

Adjective

阿富汗

1. (Internet slang, figurative) chaotic, messy, dirty, bad

   阿富汗成色  ―  āfùhàn chéngsè  ―  in bad condition

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
阿	富	汗

Proper noun

阿富汗

1. chữ Hán form of A Phú Hãn (“(dated) Afghanistan (A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)”).