貝多芬

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (貝多芬)		貝	多	芬
simp. (贝多芬)		贝	多	芬

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bèiduōfēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟˋ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄈㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bui³ do¹ fan¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Pòe-to-hun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bèiduōfēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˋ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄈㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Bèiduofen
    • Wade–Giles: Pei⁴-to¹-fên¹
    • Yale: Bèi-dwō-fēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Beyduofen
    • Palladius: Бэйдофэнь (Bɛjdofɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵¹ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ fən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bui³ do¹ fan¹
    • Yale: bui dō fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bui³ do¹ fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bui³ do¹ fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːi̯³³ tɔː⁵⁵ fɐn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pòe-to-hun
    • Tâi-lô: Puè-to-hun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poea'doi'hwn
    • IPA (Taipei): /pue¹¹⁻⁵³ to⁴⁴⁻³³ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pue²¹⁻⁴¹ tɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ hun⁴⁴/

Proper noun

貝多芬

1. (music) the German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven
2. A transliteration of the German surname Beethoven

References

• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Beethoven 贝多芬”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 236.