孤獨症

Chinese

		lonely; lonesome; solitary lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate; isolated and helpless	disease; illness; indication or sign of disease
trad. (孤獨症)		孤獨	症
simp. (孤独症)		孤独	症

Etymology

Coined by psychiatrists in Mainland China in the 1950s; first used in 1963 Chinese translation of the book Clinical Psychuatry (Yu, 2017).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gūdúzhèng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨ ㄉㄨˊ ㄓㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu¹ duk⁶ zing³
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): gou¹ dog⁸ zêng³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gūdúzhèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨ ㄉㄨˊ ㄓㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gudújhèng
    • Wade–Giles: ku¹-tu²-chêng⁴
    • Yale: gū-dú-jèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gudwujenq
    • Palladius: гудучжэн (gudučžɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku⁵⁵ tu³⁵ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gu¹ duk⁶ zing³
    • Yale: gū duhk jing
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu¹ duk⁹ dzing³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu¹ dug⁶ jing³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː⁵⁵ tʊk̚² t͡sɪŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gou¹ dog⁸ zêng³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kou to̍k tsèng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou³³⁻²³ tok̚⁴⁻² t͡seŋ²¹³/

Noun

孤獨症

1. autism (neurological disorder) [from 1950s]

Synonyms

• 自閉症／自闭症 (zìbìzhèng)