南沙

Chinese

		south	sands; shoal
simp. and trad. (南沙)		南	沙

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Nánshā

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naam⁴ saa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Lâm-soa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Nánshā
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Nánsha
    • Wade–Giles: Nan²-sha¹
    • Yale: Nán-shā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nansha
    • Palladius: Наньша (Nanʹša)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵ ʂä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: naam⁴ saa¹
    • Yale: nàahm sā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naam⁴ saa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nam⁴ sa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːm²¹ saː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâm-soa
    • Tâi-lô: Lâm-sua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lamsoaf
    • IPA (Taipei): /lam²⁴⁻¹¹ sua⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lam²³⁻³³ sua⁴⁴/

Proper noun

南沙

1. Short for 南沙群島／南沙群岛 (Nánshā Qúndǎo, “Spratly Islands”).
2. (～區) Nansha (a district of Sansha, Hainan, China)
3. (～區) Nansha (a district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China)
4. (～街道) Nansha (a subdistrict of Nansha district, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China)
5. (～鎮) Nansha (a town in Yuanyang, Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China)

Coordinate terms

• 東沙／东沙 (Dōngshā)
• 西沙 (Xīshā)
• 中沙 (Zhōngshā)

Derived terms

• 南沙群島／南沙群岛 (Nánshā Qúndǎo)

 

Descendants

• → English: Nansha