維多利亞

See also: 维多利亚

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (維多利亞)		維	多	利	亞
simp. (维多利亚)		维	多	利	亚

Etymology

Borrowed from English Victoria.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Wéiduōlìyà, Wéiduōlìyǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˊ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄌㄧˋ ㄧㄚˋ, ㄨㄟˊ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄌㄧˋ ㄧㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai⁴ do¹ lei⁶ aa³
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶vi-tu-li-ia

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Wéiduōlìyà
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄌㄧˋ ㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Wéiduolìyà
    • Wade–Giles: Wei²-to¹-li⁴-ya⁴
    • Yale: Wéi-dwō-lì-yà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Weiduolihyah
    • Palladius: Вэйдолия (Vɛjdolija)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯³⁵ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ li⁵¹⁻⁵³ jä⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, common variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Wéiduōlìyǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄌㄧˋ ㄧㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Wéiduolìyǎ
    • Wade–Giles: Wei²-to¹-li⁴-ya³
    • Yale: Wéi-dwō-lì-yǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Weiduolihyea
    • Palladius: Вэйдолия (Vɛjdolija)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯³⁵ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ li⁵¹ jä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai⁴ do¹ lei⁶ aa³
    • Yale: wàih dō leih a
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai⁴ do¹ lei⁶ aa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei⁴ do¹ léi⁶ a³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯²¹ tɔː⁵⁵ lei̯²² aː³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶vi-tu-li-ia
    • MiniDict: vi^去 tu li ia
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³vi-tu-li-ia
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vi²² tu⁵⁵ li³³ ia²¹/

Proper noun

維多利亞

1. Victoria (personal or place name)
   1. (～州) Victoria (a state of Australia)
   2. Victoria (a city in British Columbia, Canada)
   3. (historical) (～城) City of Victoria (a city in Hong Kong)
   4. (～港) Victoria Harbour (a harbour in Hong Kong separating Hong Kong Island in the south from the Kowloon Peninsula to the north)
   5. (～湖) Lake Victoria (a lake in Africa)

Synonyms

• (Cantonese) 域多利

Derived terms

• 維多利亞城 / 维多利亚城
• 維多利亞湖 / 维多利亚湖 (Wéiduōlìyà Hú)
• 維多利亞港 / 维多利亚港 (Wéiduōlìyà Gǎng)

 

References

• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Victoria 维多利亚”, 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 2899: “西方女子教名，源于拉丁语”.