印度

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印度

  • Yìndù Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄧㄣˋ ㄉㄨˋ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • Йиндў (Jindw, III-III) Mandarin, Dongan, Cyrillic
  • jan³ dou⁶ Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong
  • yin¹ u⁵ Cantonese, Taishanese, Wiktionary specific
  • Yin-thu Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • rhin^ˇ tu^˖ Hakka, Hakka Romanization System, 海陸
  • yin⁴ tu⁴ Hakka, 梅縣, 客家話拼音
  • Éng-dô Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • ing⁴ dou⁵ Puxian Min, Pouseng Ping'ing
  • Ìn-tō͘ Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • ing³ dou⁷ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ¹in-du Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • Yìndu Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄧㄣˋ ˙ㄉㄨ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • Yìndů Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • Yin⁴-tu⁵ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • Yìn-du Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • Yinn.duh Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • Иньду Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /in⁵¹⁻⁵³ tu⁵¹/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • /in⁵¹ d̥u¹/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • /iŋ⁴⁴ tu⁴⁴/ Mandarin, Dongan, IPA
  • jan³ dou⁶ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • yan douh Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • yen³ dou⁶ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou

Where it comes from

為唐朝時音譯外名而來,最早見諸記載,是由玄奘在《大唐西域記》(646年)中使用。玄奘認為這個音譯比起其他各類名字,更加符合當時的發音:

該音譯按構擬,在當時應讀作 *In-du 或 *In-dak。玄奘在後來的記敘中解釋道,Yin-du 是印度當地對月亮的稱呼之一,顯然是指梵語 इन्दु (indu,“月亮”)。玄奘還補充:

雖然現在來看,這種解釋在詞源上沒有根據,但這表明 Yin-du 的音譯屬於音義兼譯,即印(“印記、軌跡”) + 度(“輪迴、轉世”)。

本詞所借的源語言不明。首字出現的聲門塞音並不多見;這個現象也見於印特伽 (中古 'jinH dok gja),這是《宋高僧傳》(988年)中記載龜茲人對印度的稱呼。基於此,Wang et al. (2011: 8–9)認為 Yin-du 的發音是借自吐火羅語B;對比發音類似的吐火羅語B yentuke (“印度人”)。

proper noun

  1. 位於南亞的國家,佔南亞次大陸的絕大部分地方。首都:新德里 (Xīn Délǐ)

Similar: 印, 天竺, 身毒, 賢豆, 贤豆

Thesaurus

proper noun

Similar: 印, 天竺, 身毒, 賢豆, 贤豆

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {印度},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E5%8D%B0%E5%BA%A6},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}