索福尼亞

索福尼亞

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (索福尼亞)		索	福	尼	亞
simp. (索福尼亚)		索	福	尼	亚

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Sōphōniās.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Suǒfúníyà, Suǒfúníyǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄈㄨˊ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ, ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄈㄨˊ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sok³ fuk¹ nei⁴ aa³
• Min Nan (POJ): Sek-hok-nî-a

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Suǒfúníyà
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄈㄨˊ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Suǒfúníyà
    • Wade–Giles: So³-fu²-ni²-ya⁴
    • Yale: Swǒ-fú-ní-yà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Suoofwuniyah
    • Palladius: Софуния (Sofunija)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /swɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ fu³⁵ ni³⁵ jä⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, common variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Suǒfúníyǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄈㄨˊ ㄋㄧˊ ㄧㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Suǒfúníyǎ
    • Wade–Giles: So³-fu²-ni²-ya³
    • Yale: Swǒ-fú-ní-yǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Suoofwuniyea
    • Palladius: Софуния (Sofunija)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /swɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ fu³⁵ ni³⁵ jä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sok³ fuk¹ nei⁴ aa³
    • Yale: sok fūk nèih a
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sok⁸ fuk⁷ nei⁴ aa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sog³ fug¹ néi⁴ a³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔːk̚³ fʊk̚⁵ nei̯²¹ aː³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sek-hok-nî-a
    • Tâi-lô: Sik-hok-nî-a
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sekhokni'af
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ nĩ²³⁻³³ a⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ hɔk̚³²⁻⁴ nĩ²⁴⁻¹¹ a⁴⁴/

Proper noun

索福尼亞

1. (Catholicism) Zephaniah (prophet)
2. (Catholicism) Zephaniah (book of the Bible)

Synonyms

• (prophet): (Protestantism) 西番雅 (Xīfānyǎ)
• (book of the Bible): (Protestantism) 西番雅書／西番雅书 (Xīfānyǎshū)