凱文

See also: 凯文

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (凱文)		凱	文
simp. (凯文)		凯	文

Etymology

Borrowed from English Kevin.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Kǎiwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄞˇ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hoi² man⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Kǎiwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄞˇ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Kǎiwún
    • Wade–Giles: Kʻai³-wên²
    • Yale: Kǎi-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Kaewen
    • Palladius: Кайвэнь (Kajvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hoi² man⁴
    • Yale: hói màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoi² man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hoi² men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːi̯³⁵ mɐn²¹/

Proper noun

凱文

1. A transliteration of the English male given name Kevin

References

• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Kevin 凯文 [英、爱]”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1478.