檀香山

Chinese

			mountain; hill
trad. (檀香山)		檀香	山
simp. #(檀香山)		檀香	山

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tánxiāng Shān

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): taan⁴ hoeng¹ saan¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): han³ hiang¹ san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tánxiāng Shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tánsiang Shan
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻan²-hsiang¹ Shan¹
    • Yale: Tán-syāng Shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tarnshiang Shan
    • Palladius: Таньсян Шань (Tanʹsjan Šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taan⁴ hoeng¹ saan¹
    • Yale: tàahn hēung sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taan⁴ hoeng¹ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tan⁴ hêng¹ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːn²¹ hœːŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: han³ hiang¹ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /han²² hiaŋ³³ san³³/

Proper noun

檀香山

1. Honolulu (a city, the state capital of Hawaii, United States)
2. (dated) Hawaii; Hawaiian Islands; Sandwich Islands
   • 1841, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, Macao: S.W. Williams, page 181:

     檀香山由粤省正東八十度餘中有十三洲一名阿哇希冣大 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     檀香山由粤省正东八十度余中有十三洲一名阿哇希冣大 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     taan⁴ hoeng¹ saan¹ jau⁴ jyut⁶ saang² zeng³ dung¹ baat³ sap⁶ dou⁶ jyu⁴ zung¹ jau⁵ sap⁶ saam¹ zau¹ jat¹ ming⁴ aa³ waa¹ hei¹ zeoi³ daai⁶ [Jyutping]

     The Sandwich Islands are situated eighty degrees due east from Canton; they are thirteen in number; the largest of them is called Hawaii.

   • 1891, 薛福成 [Xue Fucheng], 出使英法義比四國日記, volume 6, page 36:

     羅馬兵官有遊歷檀香山而返者述及百年以前，檀香山各島尚有土人四十萬；自華民及歐人、美人來者日多，今土番人口僅存十分之一。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     罗马兵官有游历檀香山而返者述及百年以前，檀香山各岛尚有土人四十万；自华民及欧人、美人来者日多，今土番人口仅存十分之一。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Luómǎ bīngguān yǒu yóulì Tánxiāngshān ér fǎn zhě shù jí bǎi nián yǐqián, Tánxiāngshān gè dǎo shàng yǒu tǔrén sìshí wàn; zì huámín jí Ōu rén, Měi rén lái zhě rì duō, jīn tǔfān rénkǒu jǐn cún shí fēn zhī yī. [Pinyin]

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Synonyms

• 火奴魯魯／火奴鲁鲁 (Huǒnúlǔlǔ)