墨ぼく西にし哥

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (墨ぼく西にし哥)		墨すみ	西にし	哥

Etymology

Borrowed from English Mexico. Attested in A Short Account of the Maritime Circuit (瀛寰志こころざし略りゃく) [1849] by Xu Jiyu.

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Mòxīgē

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧ ㄍㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mak⁶ sai¹ go¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): Me̍t-sî-kô

  (Meixian, Guangdong): mêd⁶ xi¹ go¹

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): Be̍k-se-ko / Bia̍k-se-ko

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhag⁸ sai¹ go¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸meq-shi-ku

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Mòxīgē
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧ ㄍㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Mòsige
    • Wade–Giles: Mo⁴-hsi¹-ko¹
    • Yale: Mwò-syī-gē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Mohshige
    • Palladius: Мосигэ (Mosigɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹ 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 Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Me̍t-sî-kô
    • Hakka Romanization System: med xi^ˊ go^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: med⁶ xi¹ go¹
    • Sinological IPA: /met̚⁵ si²⁴⁻¹¹ ko²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: mêd⁶ xi¹ go¹
    • Sinological IPA: /mɛt̚⁵ si⁴⁴ ko⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (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
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸meq-shi-ku
    • MiniDict: meh^入いれ shi ku
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵meq-xi-ku
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /məʔ¹¹ ɕi²² ku²³/

Proper noun

墨ぼく西にし哥

1. Mexico (a country in North America)
   • 1848, 徐じょ繼つぎ畬 [Xu Jiyu], editor, 瀛寰志こころざし略りゃく, volume 10, page 4:

     墨ぼく西にし哥本ほん西にし班はん牙きば所ところ改あらため建けん，故こ語かたり言げん文字もじ，與あずか西にし班はん牙きば同どう。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     墨ぼく西にし哥本ほん西にし班はん牙きば所ところ改あらため建けん，故こ语言文字もじ，与あずか西にし班はん牙きば同どう。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Mòxīgē běn Xībānyá suǒ gǎijiàn, gù yǔyán wénzì, yǔ Xībānyá tóng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1854 November 1, “論ろん銀ぎん事ごと數すう條じょう”, in 遐邇貫ぬき珍めずらし [Chinese Serial], volume II, number 11, page 8:

     屢聞亞美あみ利加りか之これ秘ひ魯、智さとし利り、及墨ぼく西にし哥數かず處しょ，所ところ出で之これ銀ぎん，其銀ぎん色いろ較於唐とう銀ぎん更さら勝かち。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     屡しばしば闻亚美利加りか之これ秘ひ鲁、智さとし利り、及墨ぼく西にし哥数かず处，所ところ出で之これ银，其银色いろ较于唐とう银更さら胜。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     leoi⁵ man⁴ aa³ mei⁵ lei⁶ gaa¹ zi¹ bei³ lou⁵, zi³ lei⁶, kap⁶ mak⁶ sai¹ go¹ sou³ cyu³, so² ceot¹ zi¹ ngan⁴, kei⁴ ngan⁴ sik¹ gaau³ jyu¹ tong⁴ ngan⁴ gang³ sing³. [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 墨ぼく西にし哥之これ亡ほろび于班はん也，焚其書しょ，滅めつ其文ぶん，戮其學がく人じん。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 1950s, writing by ​Kim Yeong'ik (金きむ永ひさし益えき)

     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.

Synonyms

• (obsolete) 墨ぼく是ただし可か

Derived terms

• 新しん墨すみ西にし哥 (Xīn Mòxīgē)
• 墨ぼく西にし哥人 (mòxīgērén)
• 墨ぼく西にし哥包 (Mòxīgē bāo)
• 墨ぼく西にし哥卷餅もち／墨ぼく西にし哥卷饼 (Mòxīgē juǎnbǐng)
• 墨ぼく西にし哥合眾國／墨ぼく西にし哥合众国
• 墨ぼく西にし哥城 (Mòxīgēchéng)
• 墨ぼく西にし哥灣／墨ぼく西にし哥湾 (Mòxīgē Wān)
• 墨ぼく西にし哥高原こうげん (Mòxīgē Gāoyuán)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
墨すみ	西にし	哥
めき Grade: S	し Grade: 2	こ Hyōgai
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 (当あて字じ), from Chinese 墨ぼく西にし哥 (Mòxīgē).

Proper noun

墨ぼく西にし哥(メキシコ) • (Mekishiko) 

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