阿里巴巴

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (阿里巴巴)		阿	里	巴	巴

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Ālǐbābā

  (Zhuyin): ㄚ ㄌㄧˇ ㄅㄚ ㄅㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aa³ lei⁵ baa¹ baa¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): a¹ li² ba¹ ba¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Ālǐbābā
    • Zhuyin: ㄚ ㄌㄧˇ ㄅㄚ ㄅㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Alǐbaba
    • Wade–Giles: A¹-li³-pa¹-pa¹
    • Yale: Ā-lǐ-bā-bā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Aliibaba
    • Palladius: Алибаба (Alibaba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀä⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ pä⁵⁵ pä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aa³ lei⁵ baa¹ baa¹
    • Yale: a léih bā bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aa³ lei⁵ baa¹ baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: a³ léi⁵ ba¹ ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aː³³ lei̯¹³ paː⁵⁵ paː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: a¹ li² ba¹ ba¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: a lí pa pa
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /a³³⁻²³ li⁵²⁻³⁵ pa³³⁻²³ pa³³/

Proper noun

阿里巴巴

1. Ali Baba
2. (Internet) Alibaba Group (major Chinese technology company)

Synonyms

• (Ali Baba): (short form) 阿里 (Ālǐ)
• (Alibaba Group): (short form) 阿里 (Ālǐ)

Noun

阿里巴巴

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur) Used by ethnic Han as a pejorative for a thieving Muslim in Xinjiang, Africa, etc.

References

• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/learning-to-speak-lingerie
• https://www.academia.edu/63954336/Trade_mines_and_language_revision_Aikhenvald