休屠
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Chinese
| phonetic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (休屠) |
休 | 屠 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: Xiūtú
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡ ㄊㄨˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Sioutú
- Wade–Giles: Hsiu1-tʻu2
- Yale: Syōu-tú
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shioutwu
- Palladius: Сюту (Sjutu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Middle Chinese: xjuw drjo|du
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰ(r)u ˤa/
- (Zhengzhang): /*qʰu daː|da/
Proper noun
休屠
- (historical) a kingdom located in modern Gansu province
- 過焉支山千餘里，擊匈奴，得胡首虜萬八千餘級，破得休屠王祭天金人。
- From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
- Guò Yānzhīshān qiān yú lǐ, jī Xiōngnú, dé hú shǒu lǔ wànbāqiān yú jí, pò dé Xiūtú wáng jìtiān jīn rén.
- crossed over a thousand-odd li across the Yanzhi mountains and attacked the Xiongnu. They captured and took over 18,000 of them prisoner, and seized the golden man that the king of Xiutu used to worship Heaven.
过焉支山千余里，击匈奴，得胡首虏万八千余级，破得休屠王祭天金人。
- (historical) a tribe of the Xiongnu
- (Buddhism) Buddha