打狗

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (打狗)		打	狗

Etymology

Borrowed from Siraya takau (“bamboo forest”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Dǎgǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄍㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² gau²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Tá-káu / Táⁿ-káu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Dǎgǒu [Phonetic: dágǒu]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄍㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Dǎgǒu
    • Wade–Giles: Ta³-kou³
    • Yale: Dǎ-gǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Daagoou
    • Palladius: Дагоу (Dagou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ koʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² gau²
    • Yale: dá gáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² gau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² geo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tá-káu
    • Tâi-lô: Tá-káu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dafkao
    • IPA (Taipei): /ta⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ta⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kau⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Táⁿ-káu
    • Tâi-lô: Tánn-káu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvafkao
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kau⁵³/

Proper noun

打狗

1. Old name for 高雄 (Gāoxióng, “Kaohsiung”).

Descendants

• → Japanese: 高(たか)雄(お) (Takao)
  • → Chinese: 高雄 (Gāoxióng)