飲馬河

Chinese

		to water horses	river
trad. (飲馬河)		飲馬	河
simp. (饮马河)		饮马	河

Etymology

飲馬／饮马 (yìnmǎ) is in fact a phono-semantic matching of the non-Sinitic name of the river.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yìnmǎhé

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄏㄜˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yìnmǎhé
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yìnmǎhé
    • Wade–Giles: Yin⁴-ma³-ho²
    • Yale: Yìn-mǎ-hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yinnmaaher
    • Palladius: Иньмахэ (Inʹmaxɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵¹ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

Proper noun

飲馬河

1. Yinma River (a river in Jilin province, China; a tributary of the Second Songhua River)