圖瓦盧

See also: 图瓦卢

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (圖瓦盧)		圖	瓦	盧
simp. (图瓦卢)		图	瓦	卢

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tuvalu.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Túwǎlú

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ ㄨㄚˇ ㄌㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴ ngaa⁵ lou⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Tô͘-óa-lô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Túwǎlú
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ ㄨㄚˇ ㄌㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Túwǎlú
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻu²-wa³-lu²
    • Yale: Tú-wǎ-lú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Twuwoalu
    • Palladius: Тувалу (Tuvalu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵ wä²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou⁴ ngaa⁵ lou⁴
    • Yale: tòuh ngáh lòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴ ngaa⁵ lou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴ nga⁵ lou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹ ŋaː¹³ lou̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tô͘-óa-lô͘
    • Tâi-lô: Tôo-uá-lôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: do'oafloo
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³⁻²² ua⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔ¹³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² ua⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² ua⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔ²⁴/

Proper noun

圖瓦盧

1. (Mainland China) Tuvalu (a country and archipelago in Polynesia in Oceania)

Synonyms

• (Taiwan) 吐瓦魯／吐瓦鲁 (Tǔwǎlǔ)