約旦

See also: 约旦

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (約旦)		約	旦
simp. (约旦)		约	旦

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أُرْدُنّ (ʔurdunn).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Yuēdàn

(Zhuyin): ㄩㄝㄉㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): joek³ daan³ / joek³ daan⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): Yok-tan

(Meixian, Guangdong): yog⁵ dan⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): Iók-dáng
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Iok-tàn / Iak-tàn / Ioh-tòaⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Yuēdàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄝㄉㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Yuedàn
  - Wade–Giles: Yüeh¹-tan⁴
  - Yale: Ywē-dàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Iuedann
  - Palladius: Юэдань (Juedanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵⁵ tän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: joek³ daan³ / joek³ daan⁶
  - Yale: yeuk daan / yeuk daahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: joek⁸ daan³ / joek⁸ daan⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: yêg³ dan³ / yêg³ dan⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːk̚³ taːn³³/, /jœːk̚³ taːn²²/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Yok-tan
  - Hakka Romanization System: iog^ˋ dan
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yog⁵ dan⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /i̯ok̚² tan⁵⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Yok-tan
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iog^ˋ dan
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yog⁵ dan⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯ok̚² tan⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: yog⁵ dan⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /iɔk̚¹ tan⁵³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: Iók-dáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yoʔ²⁴⁻⁵⁵ tɑŋ²¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iok-tàn
  - Tâi-lô: Iok-tàn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iokdaxn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /iɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tan²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /iɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tan¹¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ tan⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iak-tàn
  - Tâi-lô: Iak-tàn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iakdaxn
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iak̚³²⁻⁵ tan²¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ioh-tòaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: Ioh-tuànn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ioihdvoax
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɤ(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ tuã²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /io(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tuã¹¹/

Proper noun

約旦

Jordan (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
(～河) Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)

Related terms

喬丹／乔丹 (Qiáodān)