羅定

See also: 罗定

Chinese

		to collect; to gather; to catch to collect; to gather; to catch; to shift; gauze	to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilize; to order
trad. (羅定)		羅	定
simp. (罗定)		罗	定

Etymology

Coined in 1577 during the Ming dynasty after the Yao rebellion in Luopang, Guangdong had been quashed in 1577, intended to convey the meaning 羅旁平定/罗旁平定 (“Luopang pacified”).

The first syllable 羅 is possibly borrowed from a Kra-Dai substrate word. Shao (2015) proposes that 羅 is cognate with either Zhuang laj (“low; down; bottom”), as in lajbya (“foothill”), or Proto-Kam-Sui *ra (“field; farmland”), whence Southern Kam jav, Sui qxgas, Maonan yras. Note that places with 羅 as the first character in their names are widespread in Guangdong.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Luódìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄉㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lo⁴ ding⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Luódìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄉㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Luódìng
    • Wade–Giles: Lo²-ting⁴
    • Yale: Lwó-dìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Luodinq
    • Palladius: Лодин (Lodin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ³⁵ tiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lo⁴ ding⁶
    • Yale: lòh dihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lo⁴ ding⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lo⁴ ding⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔː²¹ tɪŋ²²/

Proper noun

羅定

1. (～市) Luoding (a county-level city in Yunfu, Guangdong, China)