福爾摩斯

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (福爾摩斯)		福	爾	摩	斯
simp. (福尔摩斯)		福	尔	摩	斯

Etymology

Borrowed from English Holmes, with influence from Lua error in Module:etymology/templates at line 20: The language, family or etymology language code "nan-xm" is not valid. in the translation by Huang Ding (黃鼎) and Zhang Zaixin (張在新). Initially in the form 福而摩司 [1902], changed to the current form in 《續包探案》 [1903].

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Fú'ěrmósī

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄦˇ ㄇㄛˊ ㄙ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk¹ ji⁵ mo¹ si¹
Min Nan (POJ): Hok-ní-mô͘-su

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Fú'ěrmósī
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄦˇ ㄇㄛˊ ㄙ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Fwueelmosy
  - IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ mu̯ɔ³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fuk¹ ji⁵ mo¹ si¹
  - Yale: fūk yíh mō sī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁷ ji⁵ mo¹ si¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fug¹ yi⁵ mo¹ xi¹
  - IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚⁵ jiː¹³ mɔː⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hok-ní-mô͘-su
  - Tâi-lô: Hok-ní-môo-su
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoknymosw
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ nĩ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ nĩ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² su³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁵ nĩ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mɔ̃¹³⁻²² su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ nĩ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mɔ̃²⁴⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ nĩ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ mɔ̃²³⁻³³ su⁴⁴/

Proper noun

福爾摩斯

Sherlock Holmes (fictional detective in the novels by Arthur Conan Doyle)
(figuratively) person with great powers of observation and deduction

福爾摩斯

Chinese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

See also