Dianbaiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Tien-pai, Tienpai (Wade–Giles)

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 電白／电白 (Diànbái).

発音

• enPR: dyĕn′bī′
• 韻: -aɪ
• ハイフネーション: Dian‧bai

固有名詞

Dianbai

1. A district and former county of Maoming, Guangdong, China.
   • 1998, Bo Weikang, “Dianbai County (Guangdong Province)”, in Chinese Education & Society‎, volume 31, number 4, archived from the original on 29 June 2022:

     Situated in the southwest of Guangdong Province, Dianbai County is bordered by Yangxi County in the east, Yangchun City in the northeast, Gaozhou City in the northwest, Maoming City in the west, Wuchuan City in the southwest, and the South China Sea in the south.

   • 2000 August 8, John Pomfret, “China Finds Rampant Cheating on College Test”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2017‎:

     After July 7, Dianbai become synonymous with another trend in China: widespread cheating on entrance examinations. […]
     In Dianbai, shops openly sold or rented pagers that could receive exam answers and display them on their screens.

   • 2003, Richard Mintzer, Yes, You Can Adopt!: A Comprehensive Guide to Adoption‎, Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:

     There was paperwork to sign and a weekend to contend with before a day of travel from Beijing to Dianbai, the town the orphanage was in. When the bus arrived in Dianbai the orphanage director got on the bus and said we should go to our hotel in Maoming and the girls would be brought to us.

   • 2003 August 24, “Typhoon Krovanh Approaches South China Provinces”, in People's Daily Online‎:

     The typhoon will hit the area between Wanning City in east Hainan Province and Dianbai County in west Guangdong Province from Sunday night.

同意語

• Tinpak (Postal, from Cantonese)

参照

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dianbai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1015, column 2