冒頓
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Etymology
Uncertain. See Modu Chanyu#Name on Wikipedia.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ ㄉㄨˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Mòdú
- Wade–Giles: Mo4-tu2
- Yale: Mwò-dú
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Mohdwu
- Palladius: Моду (Modu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹ tu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ ㄉㄨㄣˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Mòdùn
- Wade–Giles: Mo4-tun4
- Yale: Mwò-dwùn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Mohduenn
- Palladius: Модунь (Modunʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ tu̯ən⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ ㄉㄨㄣˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Màodùn
- Wade–Giles: Mao4-tun4
- Yale: Màu-dwùn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Mawduenn
- Palladius: Маодунь (Maodunʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ tu̯ən⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: mak6 duk6
- Yale: mahk duhk
- Cantonese Pinyin: mak9 duk9
- Guangdong Romanization: meg6 dug6
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɐk̚² tʊk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
The pronunciation has been uncertain since the Tang–Song era when contemporary Middle Chinese pronunciation was used by classical scholars to annotate earlier texts. Sima Zhen (8th century) in his commentaries on the Shiji read the name as either "墨頓" (/*mək入tuən去/ > Mandarin Mòdùn) or "as the characters are usually read" (/*mɑu去tuən去/ > Mandarin Màodùn). Song Qi, in the 11th century, read it as "墨毒" (/*mək入duok入/ > Mandarin Mòdú, Cantonese mak6 duk6, etc.), i.e. with the final nasal replaced by a plosive, in his notes on the Hanshu.
Proper noun
冒頓
- (～單于) Modu: Modu Chanyu, founder of the Xiongnu Empire