爪哇

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (爪哇)		爪	哇
simp. #(爪哇)		爪	哇
alternative forms		爪亞／爪亚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Zhǎowā, Zhuǎwā

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄠˇ ㄨㄚ, ㄓㄨㄚˇ ㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaau² waa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Jiáu-oa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, literary)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Zhǎowā
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠˇ ㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǎowa
    • Wade–Giles: chao³-wa¹
    • Yale: jǎu-wā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jaoua
    • Palladius: чжаова (čžaova)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ wä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, vernacular)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Zhuǎwā
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄚˇ ㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuǎwa
    • Wade–Giles: chua³-wa¹
    • Yale: jwǎ-wā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: joaua
    • Palladius: чжуава (čžuava)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ä²¹⁴⁻²¹ wä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaau² waa¹
    • Yale: jáau wā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaau² waa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zao² wa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːu̯³⁵ waː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Jiáu-oa
    • Tâi-lô: Jiáu-ua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jiawoaf
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ziau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ua⁴⁴/

Proper noun

爪哇

1. Java (an island of Indonesia)
2. (rare) Java, the programming language

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 交拉吧

Derived terms

• 丟入爪哇國裡 / 丢入爪哇国里 (diū rù Zhǎowā guó lǐ)
• 熱爪哇 / 热爪哇 (rèzhǎowā)
• 爪哇人 (Zhǎowārén)
• 爪哇國 / 爪哇国 (Zhǎowāguó)
• 爪哇島 / 爪哇岛
• 爪哇族
• 爪哇海 (Zhǎowāhǎi)
• 爪哇語 / 爪哇语 (Zhǎowāyǔ)

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
爪	哇
じゃ Grade: S	わ Hyōgai
irregular

Ateji (当て字), from Chinese 爪哇 (Zhǎowā).

Proper noun

爪哇(ジャワ) • (Jawa) 

1. obsolete spelling of ジャワ (= Java): an island of Indonesia