119

English

Etymology

Variant of 911, q.v.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wən.wən.naɪn/

Proper noun

119

1. The telephone number for law enforcement in Jamaica, Mozambique, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
2. The telephone number for ambulance services in Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea and on Taiwan.

   119 handles fires and medical emergencies in Japan and Korea but the police have a separate number, 110.

3. The telephone number for firefighting assistance in China, Bolivia, Japan, and South Korea.
4. The telephone number for antiterrorist services in Afghanistan.
5. (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.

Coordinate terms

• (Australia) 000
• (Mongolia) 105
• (China, Iran) 110
• (New Zealand) 111
• (European Union) 112
• (North America) 911
• (UK, Ireland) 999

 

Anagrams

• 9-1-1, 9/11, 911

Chinese

Etymology

119 (緊急電話冧巴)／119 (紧急电话冧巴) on the Cantonese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh-yue

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yāoyāojiǔ, yīyījiǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠ ㄧㄠ ㄐㄧㄡˇ, ㄧ ㄧ ㄐㄧㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹ jat¹ gau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yāoyāojiǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠ ㄧㄠ ㄐㄧㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yaoyaojiǒu
    • Wade–Giles: yao¹-yao¹-chiu³
    • Yale: yāu-yāu-jyǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iauiaujeou
    • Palladius: яояоцзю (jaojaoczju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯⁵⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīyījiǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄧ ㄐㄧㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yiyijiǒu
    • Wade–Giles: i¹-i¹-chiu³
    • Yale: yī-yī-jyǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iijeou
    • Palladius: иицзю (iiczju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵ i⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat¹ jat¹ gau²
    • Yale: yāt yāt gáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷ jat⁷ gau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed¹ yed¹ geo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵ jɐt̚⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/

Proper noun

119

1. (People's Republic of China, Republic of China) 119: in mainland China (“People's Republic of China”) and Taiwan (“Republic of China”) the emergency telephone number for firefighting