星加坡

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (星加坡)		星	加	坡
alternative forms		星架波 Cantonese; obsolete

Etymology

Borrowed from English Singapore.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xīngjiāpō

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄆㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing¹ gaa³ bo¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): Sĭng-gă-pŏ̤
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹shin-ka-phu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xīngjiāpō
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄆㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Singjiapo
    • Wade–Giles: Hsing¹-chia¹-pʻo¹
    • Yale: Syīng-jyā-pwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shingjiapo
    • Palladius: Синцзяпо (Sinczjapo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ pʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing¹ gaa³ bo¹
    • Yale: sīng ga bō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing¹ gaa³ bo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing¹ ga³ bo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ⁵⁵ kaː³³ pɔː⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: Sĭng-gă-pŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ⁵⁵⁻²¹ ^(k-)ŋa⁵⁵ ^(pʰ-)βo⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹shin-ka-phu
    • MiniDict: shin^平 ka phu
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹xin-ka-phu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin⁵⁵ ka³³ pʰu²¹/

Proper noun

星加坡

1. (dated, still common in Cantonese) Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony)
   • 1904, Liang Qichao, 新大陸遊記 [Travel Notes of the New Continent], 廣智書局, published 1907, page 1:

     遽聞漢口之變，志不遂，遂折而南，由香港而星加坡而檳榔嶼而印度，繞澳大利亞洲一週。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     遽闻汉口之变，志不遂，遂折而南，由香港而星加坡而槟榔屿而印度，绕澳大利亚洲一周。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Jù wén Hànkǒu zhī biàn, zhì bùsuì, suì zhé ér nán, yóu Xiānggǎng ér Xīngjiāpō ér Bīnlángyǔ ér Yìndù, rào Àodàlìyàzhōu yī zhōu. [Pinyin]

     Hearing of the change in Hankow, he turned south and went south from Hong Kong to Singapore and Penang to India, circumnavigating Australia for a week.

   • 1989 November 1, Francis K. Loo, 香港工業: 政策、 企業特點及前景, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 1:

     香港在工業發展上，很多時被人與南韓、台灣和星加坡並列，稱爲「亞洲四小龍」 [MSC, trad.]
     香港在工业发展上，很多时被人与南韩、台湾和星加坡并列，称为「亚洲四小龙」 [MSC, simp.]

     xiānggǎng zài gōngyè fāzhǎn shàng, hěnduō shí bèi rén yǔ nánhán, táiwān hé xīngjiāpō bìngliè, chēngwèi “yàzhōusìxiǎolóng” [Pinyin]

     In terms of industrial development, Hong Kong is often ranked alongside South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore as the "Asian Tigers".

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 新加坡 (“Singapore”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		新加坡
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	新加坡
	Malaysia	新加坡, 新國
	Singapore	新加坡, 星洲 nickname, 獅城 nickname, 小紅點 nickname, 石叻 dated, 石叻埠 dated, 叻埠 dated
Cantonese	Guangzhou	星加坡, 叻埠
	Hong Kong	新加坡, 星加坡, 星國, 星洲 nickname, 叻埠 dated
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	星加坡
	Penang (Guangfu)	星加坡
	Singapore (Guangfu)	星加坡
Southern Min	Xiamen	新加坡, 石叻 dated
	Quanzhou	新加坡
	Zhangzhou	新加坡
	Penang (Hokkien)	新加坡, 實叻坡
	Singapore (Hokkien)	新加坡, 獅城, 石叻 dated
	Manila (Hokkien)	新加坡
	Jieyang	石叻 dated, 叻埠 dated
	Singapore (Teochew)	新加坡, 星洲
	Singapore (Hainanese)	新加坡
Wu	Shanghai	新加坡