危地馬拉

See also: 危地马拉

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (危地馬拉)		危	地	馬	拉
simp. (危地马拉)		危	地	马	拉

Etymology

Attested in A Short Account of the Maritime Circuit (瀛寰志略) [1849] by Xu Jiyu. For the use of the character 危 (wēi) to transcribe the first syllable of Guatemala, compare 新危尼, the translation of New Guinea in the same work.

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Wēidìmǎlā, Wéidìmǎlā

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄟㄉㄧˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄚ, ㄨㄟˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁴ dei⁶ maa⁵ laai¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Gûi-tē-má-la

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Wēidìmǎlā
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄟㄉㄧˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: weidìmǎla
  - Wade–Giles: wei¹-ti⁴-ma³-la¹
  - Yale: wēi-dì-mǎ-lā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ueidihmaalha
  - Palladius: вэйдимала (vɛjdimala)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵⁵ ti⁵¹ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ lä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; dated variant in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Wéidìmǎlā
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wéidìmǎla
  - Wade–Giles: wei²-ti⁴-ma³-la¹
  - Yale: wéi-dì-mǎ-lā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: weidihmaalha
  - Palladius: вэйдимала (vɛjdimala)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯³⁵ ti⁵¹ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ lä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ngai⁴ dei⁶ maa⁵ laai¹
  - Yale: ngàih deih máh lāai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁴ dei⁶ maa⁵ laai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁴ déi⁶ ma⁵ lai¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²¹ tei̯²² maː¹³ laːi̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gûi-tē-má-la
  - Tâi-lô: Guî-tē-má-la
  - Phofsit Daibuun: gui'dexmaflaf
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡui²⁴⁻²² te⁴¹⁻²² mã⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ la³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡui¹³⁻²² te²²⁻²¹ mã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ la⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɡui²⁴⁻²² te²²⁻²¹ mã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ la⁴⁴/

Proper noun

危地馬拉

(Mainland China, Hong Kong) Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Synonyms

(Taiwan) 瓜地馬拉／瓜地马拉 (Guādìmǎlā)
(obsolete) 掘地孖罅 (Juédìmāxià)