戈壁

Chinese

		spear	wall; rampart
simp. and trad. (戈壁)		戈	壁

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Manchu ᡤᠣᠪᡳ (gobi), from Classical Mongolian ᠭᠣᠪᠢ (ɣobi, “semidesert; desert; Gobi”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Gēbì

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwo¹ bik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Gēbì
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Gebì
    • Wade–Giles: Ko¹-pi⁴
    • Yale: Gē-bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Gebih
    • Palladius: Гэби (Gɛbi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵ pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwo¹ bik¹
    • Yale: gwō bīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwo¹ bik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: guo¹ big¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔː⁵⁵ pɪk̚⁵/

Proper noun

戈壁

1. Gobi (a large desert in East Asia)
2. (by extension) any desert sharing similar geological features to the Gobi desert; deserts in general

Derived terms

• 馬勒戈壁／马勒戈壁 (mǎlègēbì)