坤甸

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (坤甸)		坤	甸

Etymology

From Malay kuntilanak, a female vampiric ghost in Malaysian and Indonesian mythology, also the former name of the city.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Kūndiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄣ ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): kung¹ diang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Kūndiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄣ ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Kundiàn
    • Wade–Giles: Kʻun¹-tien⁴
    • Yale: Kwūn-dyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Kuendiann
    • Palladius: Куньдянь (Kunʹdjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: kung¹ diang⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khung tiăng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuŋ³³⁻²³ tiaŋ³⁵/

Proper noun

坤甸

1. (～市) Pontianak (a city, the provincial capital of West Kalimantan, Indonesia)

Descendants

• → Indonesian: Khuntien, Kun Tian
  • → English: Khuntien, Kun Tian