金塔

Chinese

		metal; gold; money	pagoda; tower
trad. (金塔)		金	塔
simp. #(金塔)		金	塔

Etymology

"Phnom Penh"

A reference to the pagoda of Wat Phnom.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīntǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ ㄊㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹ taap³
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): gim¹ tah⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīntǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ ㄊㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jintǎ
    • Wade–Giles: chin¹-tʻa³
    • Yale: jīn-tǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jintaa
    • Palladius: цзиньта (czinʹta)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ tʰä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam¹ taap³
    • Yale: gām taap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹ taap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem¹ tab³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵ tʰaːp̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gim¹ tah⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kim thah
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kim³³⁻²³ tʰaʔ²/

Noun

金塔

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 金 (jīn),‎ 塔 (tǎ). ("golden tower or pagoda, etc.")
2. (Cantonese) jar for holding the bones of a dead body

Proper noun

金塔

1. (～縣) Jinta (a county of Jiuquan, Gansu, China)
2. (Teochew) Phnom Penh (a city, the capital city of Cambodia)

Synonyms

• (Phnom Penh): 金邊／金边 (Jīnbiān)