荷蘭西

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (荷蘭西)		荷	蘭	西
simp. (荷兰西)		荷	兰	西

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): Hô-lân-se / Hô-liân-se

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ho⁵ lang¹ sê¹

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hô-lân-se
    • Tâi-lô: Hô-lân-se
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoilansef
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ho²⁴⁻²² lan²⁴⁻²² se⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hô-liân-se
    • Tâi-lô: Hô-liân-se
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoiliensef
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho¹³⁻²² liɛn¹³⁻²² se⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ho⁵ lang¹ sê¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hô lang se
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ho⁵⁵⁻¹¹ laŋ³³⁻²³ se³³/

Proper noun

荷蘭西

1. (Southern Min, obsolete) France (a country in western Europe)
   • 1886, Lim Hiong Seng, “Notes—Hostilities”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press, page 167:

     中國與荷蘭西相刣。何人刣羸。 [Teochew, trad.]
     中国与荷兰西相刣。何人刣羸。 [Teochew, simp.]

     dong¹ gog⁴ gah⁴ ho⁵ lang¹ sê¹ siê¹ tai⁵. di⁵ diang⁵ tai⁵ ian⁵? [Peng'im]

     War between China and France. Who has won the victory?

Synonyms

• 法國／法国 (Fǎguó)
• (dated or poetic) 法蘭西／法兰西 (Fǎlánxī)
• (obsolete) 佛蘭西／佛兰西 (Fólánxī)
• (abbreviation) 法 (fǎ)

Derived terms

• 荷蘭西水 / 荷兰西水

 

See also

• 荷蘭／荷兰 (Hélán, “the Netherlands; Holland”)

References

• Blussé, Leonard, Nie, Dening (2018) The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610–1795), page 287
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “lân”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 292; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 292

  hô-lân-se, France. hoat-lân-se, id., generally confounded with Holland by the Amoy people.