雅典

Chinese

		elegant	canon; dictionary
trad. (雅典)		雅	典
simp. #(雅典)		雅	典
anagram		典雅

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι (Athênai), maybe via some unidentified European intermediate.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yǎdiǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˇ ㄉㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaa⁵ din²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Ngâ-tién
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Ngá-tián / Ngée-tián

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yǎdiǎn [Phonetic: yádiǎn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˇ ㄉㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yǎdiǎn
    • Wade–Giles: Ya³-tien³
    • Yale: Yǎ-dyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yeadean
    • Palladius: Ядянь (Jadjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngaa⁵ din²
    • Yale: ngáh dín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaa⁵ din²
    • Guangdong Romanization: nga⁵ din²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaː¹³ tiːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Ngâ-tién
    • Hakka Romanization System: nga´ dien`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: nga¹ dian³
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋa²⁴ ti̯en³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ngá-tián
    • Tâi-lô: Ngá-tián
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ngafdiern
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /ŋã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tiɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tiɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ŋã⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tiɛn⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ngée-tián
    • Tâi-lô: Ngée-tián
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋɛ̃⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tiɛn⁵³/

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 雅典

1. Athens (a city, the capital city of Greece)