A'ertai
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 阿爾泰 / 阿尔泰 (Ā'ěrtài).
Pronunciation
- enPR: äʹěrʹtīʹ
- Hyphenation: A‧er‧tai[1]
Proper noun
A'ertai
- Synonym of Altai: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- 2011, Wang Yongli, “Curly's Mother Was Rescued from the Slave Traders”, in The Hell and the World[3], Strategic Book Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 194:
- She was sold to a remote valley in the area of Aertai Mountain in Xinjiang province. The valley was a part of the Aertai natural basin; it was a highly protected area. Despite this, many criminals hid there and set up camps and caves to live in.
- 2012, Adam T. Kessler, “The Jin Dynasty (1115-1234 AD)”, in Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
- Whereas the A'ertai city-site is 13km east of Huocheng Xian, the hoard was brought to light in an agricultural field on the western banks of the Kegan River that runs north of Huocheng Xian.
References
- ^ cf. “中華人民共和國國家標準 [Basic rules of the Chinese phonetic alphabet orthography]”, in Pinyin.info[1] (in Chinese), 29 June 2012, archived from the original on 13 February 2016[2]: “6.6.2 音節前有隔音符號，移行時，去掉隔音符號，加連接號。 ― 6.6.2 If there is syllable dividing mark before a syllable, remove the syllable dividing mark and add a hyphen when moving to another line.”