凱文

See also: 凯文

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (凱文)		凱	文
simp. (凯文)		凯	文

Etymology

Borrowed from English Kevin.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Kǎiwén

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄞˇ ㄨㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hoi² man⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Kǎiwén
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄞˇ ㄨㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Kǎiwún
  - Wade–Giles: Kʻai³-wên²
  - Yale: Kǎi-wén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Kaewen
  - Palladius: Кайвэнь (Kajvɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ wən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hoi² man⁴
  - Yale: hói màhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hoi² man⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: hoi² men⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːi̯³⁵ mɐn²¹/

Proper noun

凱文

a transliteration of the English male given name Kevin

References

Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Kevin 凯文 [英、爱]”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1478.