雅典

Chinese

		elegant	canon; dictionary
simp. and trad. (雅典)		雅	典
anagram		典雅

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι (Athênai), maybe via some unidentified European intermediate.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Yǎdiǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˇ ㄉㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaa⁵ din²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Ngâ-tién
Min Nan (POJ): Ngá-tián / Ngée-tián

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Yǎdiǎn [Phonetic: yádiǎn]
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˇ ㄉㄧㄢˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yeadean
  - IPA ^(key): /i̯a̠²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ngaa⁵ din²
  - Yale: ngáh dín
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngaa⁵ din²
  - Guangdong Romanization: nga⁵ din²
  - IPA ^(key): /ŋɑː¹³ tiːn³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Ngâ-tién
  - Hakka Romanization System: nga´ dien`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: nga¹ dian³
  - IPA: /ŋa²⁴ ti̯en³¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ngá-tián
  - Tâi-lô: Ngá-tián
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ngafdiern
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /ŋã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tiɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tiɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ŋã⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tiɛn⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ngée-tián
  - Tâi-lô: Ngée-tián
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋɛ̃⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tiɛn⁵³/

Proper noun

雅典

Athens (capital city of Greece)

Derived terms

雅典娜 (Yǎdiǎnnà)

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