北島

Chinese

		north	island
trad. (北島)		北	島
simp. (北岛)		北	岛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Běidǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟˇ ㄉㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bak¹ dou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Běidǎo [Phonetic: béidǎo]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˇ ㄉㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Běidǎo
    • Wade–Giles: Pei³-tao³
    • Yale: Běi-dǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Beeidao
    • Palladius: Бэйдао (Bɛjdao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bak¹ dou²
    • Yale: bāk dóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bak⁷ dou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: beg¹ dou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐk̚⁵ tou̯³⁵/

Etymology 1

Calque of English North Island.

Proper noun

北島

1. North Island (one of the two major islands of New Zealand)

Coordinate terms

• 南島／南岛 (Nándǎo)

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 北島(きたじま) (Kitajima).

Proper noun

北島

1. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 北島, Kitajima

Japanese

Kanji in this term
北	島
きた Grade: 2	しま > じま Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Proper noun

北(きた)島(じま) • (Kitajima) 

1. a surname