青海

Chinese

	green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)	ocean; sea
simp. and trad. (青海)	青	海
anagram	海青
Literally: “bluegreen sea/lake”.

Etymology

Compare similar-meaning names for Lake Qinghai in other languages: Tibetan མཚོ་སྔོན (mtsho sngon), མཚོ་སྔོན་པོ (mtsho sngon po, “blue lake”), Mongolian ᠬᠥᠬᠡ
ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (köke naɣur, “blue lake”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Qīnghǎi

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥㄏㄞˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cing¹ hoi²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Chhiâng-hói
Min Dong (BUC): Chĭng-hāi
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): Chheng-hái

(Teochew, Peng'im): cên¹ hai²
Wu (Wiktionary): qin he (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Qīnghǎi
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥㄏㄞˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Chinghae
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cing¹ hoi²
  - Yale: chīng hói
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsing¹ hoi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: qing¹ hoi²
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ hɔːi̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Chhiâng-hói
  - Hakka Romanization System: qiang´ hoi`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: qiang¹ hoi³
  - IPA: /t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ²⁴ ho̯i³¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: Chĭng-hāi
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiŋ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ^(h-)ŋai³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chheng-hái
  - Tâi-lô: Tshing-hái
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhenghae
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² haɪ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ³³ haɪ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² haɪ⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ haɪ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ haɪ⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cên¹ hai²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsheⁿ hái
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰẽ³³⁻²³ hai⁵²/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: qin he (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɪɲ⁵⁵ he̞²¹/

Proper noun

青海

(～湖) Lake Qinghai (lake in Qinghai province, China)
(～省) Qinghai province (province of China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
青	海
せい Grade: 1	かい Grade: 2
on’yomi

Proper noun

青海 (hiragana せいかい, rōmaji Seikai)

Qinghai

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