哥倫布

See also: 哥伦布

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (哥倫布)		哥	倫	布
simp. (哥伦布)		哥	伦	布

Etymology

From English Columbus, ultimately from Latin.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Gēlúnbù

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ ㄌㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): go¹ leon⁴ bou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Gēlúnbù
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ ㄌㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Gelúnbù
    • Wade–Giles: Ko¹-lun²-pu⁴
    • Yale: Gē-lwún-bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Geluenbuh
    • Palladius: Гэлуньбу (Gɛlunʹbu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵ lu̯ən³⁵ pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: go¹ leon⁴ bou³
    • Yale: gō lèuhn bou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: go¹ loen⁴ bou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: go¹ lên⁴ bou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔː⁵⁵ lɵn²¹ pou̯³³/

Proper noun

哥倫布

1. A transliteration of the English male given name Columbus
2. A transliteration of the English surname Columbus
3. Columbus (a city, the state capital of Ohio, United States)

Derived terms

• 哥倫布大交換 / 哥伦布大交换 (Gēlúnbù Dà Jiāohuàn)

 

References

• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Columbus 哥伦布 [英、瑞典]”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 614.