墨西哥

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (墨西哥)		墨	西	哥

Etymology

Borrowed from English Mexico.

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Mòxīgē

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧㄍㄜ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mak⁶ sai¹ go¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): Me̍t-sî-kô

(Meixian, Guangdong): mêd⁶ xi¹ go¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): Be̍k-se-ko / Bia̍k-se-ko

(Teochew, Peng'im): bhag⁸ sai¹ go¹
Wu (Wiktionary): ⁵meq-xi-ku

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Mòxīgē
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧㄍㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Mòsige
  - Wade–Giles: Mo⁴-hsi¹-ko¹
  - Yale: Mwò-syī-gē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Mohshige
  - Palladius: Мосигэ (Mosigɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mwɔ⁵¹ ɕi⁵⁵ kɤ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mak⁶ sai¹ go¹
  - Yale: mahk sāi gō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mak⁹ sai¹ go¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: meg⁶ sei¹ go¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐk̚² sɐi̯⁵⁵ kɔː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Me̍t-sî-kô
  - Hakka Romanization System: med xi´ go´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: med⁶ xi¹ go¹
  - Sinological IPA: /met̚⁵ ɕi²⁴⁻¹¹ ko²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: mêd⁶ xi¹ go¹
  - Sinological IPA: /mɛt̚⁵ ɕi⁴⁴ ko⁴⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Be̍k-se-ko
  - Tâi-lô: Bi̍k-se-ko
  - Phofsit Daibuun: begse'koy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /biɪk̚⁴⁻³² se⁴⁴⁻²² ko⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪk̚⁴⁻³² se⁴⁴⁻³³ kɤ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /biɪk̚⁴⁻³² se⁴⁴⁻³³ ko⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ se⁴⁴⁻²² ko⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bia̍k-se-ko
  - Tâi-lô: Bia̍k-se-ko
  - Phofsit Daibuun: biagse'koy
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /biak̚²⁴⁻² se³³ ko³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bhag⁸ sai¹ go¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ba̍k sai ko
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /bak̚⁴⁻² sai³³⁻²³ ko³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: ⁵meq-xi-ku
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /məʔ¹¹ ɕi²² kv̩ʷ²³/

Proper noun

墨西哥

Mexico (a country in North America)
- 墨西哥之亡于班也，焚其書，滅其文，戮其學人。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]
  From: 1950s, writing by Kim Yeong'ik (金永益)
  Mukseoga ji mang eo Ban ya, bun gi seo, myeol gi mun, ryuk gi hagin. [Sino-Korean]
  When Mexico was conquered by Spain, [the Spaniards] burnt their books, annihilated their writings, and massacred their learned men.

Derived terms

墨西哥人 (mòxīgērén)
墨西哥包 (Mòxīgē bāo)
墨西哥城 (Mòxīgēchéng)
墨西哥高原 (Mòxīgē Gāoyuán)

新墨西哥 (Xīn Mòxīgē)
墨西哥卷餅／墨西哥卷饼 (Mòxīgē juǎnbǐng)
墨西哥合眾國／墨西哥合众国
墨西哥灣／墨西哥湾 (Mòxīgē Wān)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
墨	西	哥
めき Grade: S	し Grade: 2	こ Hyōgaiji
irregular

Alternative spelling
墨西哥 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Borrowed from English Mexico, in turn from Spanish México, from Classical Nahuatl Mēxihco. The kanji are ateji (当て字), from Chinese 墨西哥 (Mòxīgē).

Proper noun

墨西哥(メキシコ) • (Mekishiko)

Obsolete spelling of メキシコ (“Mexico (a country)”)

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