滑鐵盧

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (滑鐵盧)		滑	鐵	盧
simp. (滑铁卢)		滑	铁	卢

Etymology

Borrowed from English Waterloo, via Cantonese. Doublet of 窩打老／窝打老.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Huátiělú

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄌㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waat⁶ tit³ lou⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Ku̍t-thih-lô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Huátiělú
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄌㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Huátiělú
    • Wade–Giles: Hua²-tʻieh³-lu²
    • Yale: Hwá-tyě-lú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hwatieelu
    • Palladius: Хуателу (Xuatelu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ tʰi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waat⁶ tit³ lou⁴
    • Yale: waaht tit lòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waat⁹ tit⁸ lou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wad⁶ tid³ lou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːt̚² tʰiːt̚³ lou̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ku̍t-thih-lô͘
    • Tâi-lô: Ku̍t-thih-lôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kudtihloo
    • IPA (Taipei): /kut̚⁴⁻³² tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ lɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kut̚⁴⁻³² tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ lɔ²³/

Proper noun

滑鐵盧

1. Waterloo (a municipality of Walloon Brabant, Belgium)
2. (～市) Waterloo (a city in Ontario, Canada)

Noun

滑鐵盧

1. (figurative) defeat; disastrous defeat

   慘遭滑鐵盧／惨遭滑铁卢  ―  cǎnzāo huátiělú  ―  to suffer a crushing defeat; to meet one's Waterloo

Verb

滑⫽鐵盧 (verb-object)

1. (chiefly Cantonese) to suffer a disastrous defeat