# 荷蘭
## Chinese

* 荷蘭 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 荷蘭 (地區) (Written Standard Chinese)
* 荷蘭 (搞清楚) (Cantonese)
* 荷蘭 (Hakka)
* 荷蘭 (Classical)
* 荷蘭 (Gan)
* 荷蘭 (Wu)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Holland.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Hélán
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄌㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ho$^4$ laan$^{4-1}$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): Hò-làn / Hò-nàn
    (Hailu, HRS): ho lan
    (Meixian, Guangdong): ho$^2$ lan$^2$
* Eastern Min (BUC): Hò̤-làng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hor$^2$ lang$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Hô-lân / Hô-lan / O-lân
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$wu-le
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Hélán
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄌㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: Hélán
*** Wade–Giles: Ho$^2$-lan$^2$
*** Yale: Hé-lán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Herlan
*** Palladius: Хэлань (Xɛlanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /xɤ³⁵ län³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ho$^4$ laan$^{4-1}$
*** Yale: hòh lāan
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ho$^4$ laan$^{4-1}$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ho$^4$ lan$^{4-1}$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɔː²¹ laːn²¹⁻⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hò-làn
*** Hakka Romanization System: ho$^ˇ$ lan$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: ho$^2$ lan$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /ho¹¹ lan¹¹/
** (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hò-làn / Hò-nàn
*** Hakka Romanization System: ho$^ˇ$ lan$^ˇ$ / ho$^ˇ$ nan$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: ho$^2$ lan$^2$ / ho$^2$ nan$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /ho¹¹ lan¹¹/, /ho¹¹ nan¹¹/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: ho lan
*** Sinological IPA: /ho⁵⁵ lan⁵⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: ho$^2$ lan$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /ho¹¹ lan¹¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: Hò̤-làng
*** Sinological IPA : /ho⁵³⁻³³ l̃aŋ⁵³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: hor$^2$ lang$^2$ [Phonetic: hor$^5$ lang$^2$]
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: Hó̤-láng
*** Sinological IPA : /hɒ¹³⁻²¹ laŋ¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hô-lân
*** Tâi-lô: Hô-lân
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hoilaan
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ²³⁻³³ lan²³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ho²⁴⁻¹¹ lan²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ho²⁴⁻²² lan²⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hô-lan
*** Tâi-lô: Hô-lan
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hoilafn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ho²⁴⁻²² lan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho¹³⁻²² lan⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: O-lân
*** Tâi-lô: O-lân
*** Phofsit Daibuun: oilaan
*** IPA (Taipei): /o⁴⁴⁻³³ lan²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ lan²³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$wu-le
*** MiniDict: wu$^去$ le
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$hhu-le
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦu²² le⁴⁴/

### Proper noun

荷蘭
* Holland, the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe)
    荷蘭東印度公司／荷兰东印度公司 ― Hélán Dōng Yìndù Gōngsī ― Dutch East India Company
** 1730, 陳倫烱, 海國聞見錄, volume 上卷, page 14:
       Hélán yánshǒu Ānpíng dà gǎng, Chénggōng cóng Lù'ěrmén jìn, shuǐ zhàng sān zhàng yú, rù jù Táiwān, yǔ Hélán Xiàngchí shèn jiǔ. [Pinyin]
       (please add an English translation of this quotation)
* Holland (a traditional region of the Netherlands formed by two modern provinces, North Holland and South Holland)
* (Mainland China, Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of 河南 (Hénán, “Henan province”) (mocking the accent of the Henan dialect)

### Adverb

荷蘭
* (Cantonese, euphemistic, vulgar) Alternative form of 好撚 (hou$^2$ lan$^2$, “fucking (as an intensifier)”)

#### Derived terms

* 白荷蘭翹搖 / 白荷兰翘摇
* 荷蘭乳牛 / 荷兰乳牛
* 荷蘭文 / 荷兰文 (Hélánwén, “Dutch language”)
* 荷蘭水 / 荷兰水 (hélánshuǐ)
* 荷蘭水蓋 / 荷兰水盖
* 荷蘭滾 / 荷兰滚 (“Dutch roll”)
* 荷蘭王國 / 荷兰王国 (Hélán Wángguó, “Kingdom of the Netherlands”)
* 荷蘭蔥 / 荷兰葱 (“Alocasia cucullata”)
* 荷蘭薯 / 荷兰薯
* 荷蘭語 / 荷兰语 (Hélányǔ, “Dutch language”)
* 荷蘭豆 / 荷兰豆 (hélándòu, “snow pea”)
* 荷蘭豬 / 荷兰猪 (hélánzhū, “guinea pig”)
* 荷蘭醬 / 荷兰酱 (“hollandaise sauce”)
* 荷蘭門 / 荷兰门 (hélánmén, “Dutch door”)

#### Descendants

* → Vietnamese: Hà Lan (荷蘭)
Others:
* → Manchu: ᡥᠣ᠋ ᠯᠠᠨ (ho lan)
* → Tibetan: ཧོ་ལན (ho lan)
* → Zhuang: Hozlanz

### See also

* 和蘭／和兰 (Hélán)
* 尼德蘭／尼德兰 (Nídélán)

### References

* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “荷蘭”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC

## Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term :
| 荷 | 蘭 |

### Proper noun

荷蘭
* chữ Hán form of Hà Lan.:
** Holland (a traditional region of the Netherlands formed by two modern provinces, North Holland and South Holland)
** Holland, the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe)