衣索比亞

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (衣索比亞)		衣	索	比	亞
simp. (衣索比亚)		衣	索	比	亚

Etymology

From English Ethiopia.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yīsuǒbǐyà, Yīsuǒbǐyǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄅㄧˇ ㄧㄚˋ, ㄧ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄅㄧˇ ㄧㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹ sok³ bei² aa³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yīsuǒbǐyà [Phonetic: yīsuóbǐyà]
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄅㄧˇ ㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yisuǒbǐyà
    • Wade–Giles: I¹-so³-pi³-ya⁴
    • Yale: Yī-swǒ-bǐ-yà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Isuoobiiyah
    • Palladius: Исобия (Isobija)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ pi²¹⁴⁻²¹ jä⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, common variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yīsuǒbǐyǎ [Phonetic: yīsuóbíyǎ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄅㄧˇ ㄧㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yisuǒbǐyǎ
    • Wade–Giles: I¹-so³-pi³-ya³
    • Yale: Yī-swǒ-bǐ-yǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Isuoobiiyea
    • Palladius: Исобия (Isobija)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ pi²¹⁴⁻³⁵ jä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji¹ sok³ bei² aa³
    • Yale: yī sok béi a
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹ sok⁸ bei² aa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹ sog³ béi² a³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵ sɔːk̚³ pei̯³⁵ aː³³/

Proper noun

衣索比亞

1. (Taiwan) Ethiopia

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 埃塞俄比亞 (“Ethiopia”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	衣索比亞, 衣索匹亞, 衣國
Cantonese	Hong Kong	埃塞俄比亞, 埃塞
Southern Min	Xiamen	埃塞俄比亞
	Quanzhou	埃塞俄比亞
	Zhangzhou	埃塞俄比亞