西澳

Chinese

		west	deep bay; cove; bay deep bay; cove; bay; harbour; Australia (abbrev.); Macao
trad. (西澳)		西	澳
simp. #(西澳)		西	澳

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xī'Ào

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹ ou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xī'Ào
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Si-ào
    • Wade–Giles: Hsi¹-ao⁴
    • Yale: Syī-àu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shiaw
    • Palladius: Сиао (Siao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ ˀɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai¹ ou³
    • Yale: sāi ou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹ ou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei¹ ou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵ ou̯³³/

Proper noun

西澳

1. (～州) Short for 西澳大利亞／西澳大利亚 (Xī-Àodàlìyà, “Western Australia”).
   • 1904, Liang Qichao, 新大陸遊記 [Travel Notes of the New Continent], 廣智書局, published 1907, page 8:

     澳洲之西澳、南澳兩省，限能解英語五十句以上者，乃可登陸。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     澳洲之西澳、南澳两省，限能解英语五十句以上者，乃可登陆。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Àozhōu zhī Xī'ào, Nán'ào liǎng shěng, xiàn néng jiě yīngyǔ wǔshí jù yǐshàng zhě, nǎi kě dēnglù. [Pinyin]

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