滑鐵盧

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (滑鐵盧)		滑	鐵	盧
simp. (滑铁卢)		滑	铁	卢

Etymology

Borrowed from English Waterloo, via Cantonese. Doublet of 窩打老／窝打老.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Huátiělú

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄌㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waat⁶ tit³ lou⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Ku̍t-thih-lô͘

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Huátiělú
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄌㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Huátiělú
  - Wade–Giles: Hua²-tʻieh³-lu²
  - Yale: Hwá-tyě-lú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hwatieelu
  - Palladius: Хуателу (Xuatelu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ tʰi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: waat⁶ tit³ lou⁴
  - Yale: waaht tit lòuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waat⁹ tit⁸ lou⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: wad⁶ tid³ lou⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːt̚² tʰiːt̚³ lou̯²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ku̍t-thih-lô͘
  - Tâi-lô: Ku̍t-thih-lôo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kudtihloo
  - IPA (Taipei): /kut̚⁴⁻³² tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ lɔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kut̚⁴⁻³² tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ lɔ²³/

Proper noun

滑鐵盧

Waterloo (a municipality of Walloon Brabant, Belgium)
(～市) Waterloo (a city in Ontario, Canada)

Noun

滑鐵盧

(figurative) defeat; disastrous defeat
慘遭滑鐵盧／惨遭滑铁卢 ― cǎnzāo huátiělú ― to suffer a crushing defeat; to meet one's Waterloo

Verb

滑⫽鐵盧 (verb-object)

(chiefly Cantonese) to suffer a disastrous defeat

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