雪梨

雪梨

1. a vernacular name for some varieties of apple pear (Pyrus pyrifolia) and Chinese white pear (Pyrus bretschneideri)

Borrowed from English Sydney, via Cantonese.

雪梨

1. (chiefly Taiwan, dated elsewhere) Sydney (a city in New South Wales, Australia)

   雪梨是澳洲上大的城市。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad. and simp.]

   Soat-lê sī Ò-chiu siōng tōa ê siâⁿ-chhī. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   Sydney is Australia's largest city.

   • 雪梨粵商二十九家，華人商工共四千，其在內地開店及種植者亦六千餘。其苛政尤無理者，華商由雪梨往美利濱，又須重收身稅十磅。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     雪梨粤商二十九家，华人商工共四千，其在内地开店及种植者亦六千余。其苛政尤无理者，华商由雪梨往美利滨，又须重收身税十磅。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1891, Xue Fucheng, 出使英法義比四國日記

     Xuělí Yuè shāng èrshíjiǔ jiā, Huárén shāng gōng gòng sì qiān, qí zài nèidì kāi diàn jí Zhǒngzhí zhě yì liù qiān yú. Qí kēzhèng yóu wúlǐ zhě, huá shāng yóu Xuělí wǎng Měilìbīn, yòu xū zhòng shōu shēnshuì shí bàng. [Pinyin]

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2. (Cantonese) Sydney (a city in Nova Scotia, Canada)

• (Sydney, Australia): (Mainland China, Hong Kong) 悉尼 (Xīní), 雪梨埠, 雪梨金山

• Chan, Clara Ho-yan (2018 December 13) “Translation of Proper Names in Hong Kong: Media and Official Usage at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”, in Hikma‎, volume 17, →DOI, →ISSN, page 99