Talk:Names of Macau

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The article says that the transliteration "A-Ma-Gao" (it cites an article that calls it "A-Ma-Gau") means "Bay of A-Ma". What Chinese Characters exactly is this supposed to be? I can't think of a character pronounced like "Gao" that means "Bay". This article seems to say that "Macao" comes directly from 媽閣 (maa gok), which doesn't have any part that means "bay". --76.167.241.45 (talk) 23:01, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The character 港 (gǎng) "port/harbor" is actually pronounced pretty similarly to Portuguese "cão", and some accounts seem to be implying that connection. I don't know what the real story is though. GeoEvan (talk) 13:58, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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This article claims that the spelling "Macao" is used partly because that's the standard transliteration in Standard Chinese, a.k.a. Mandarin. But in Hanyu Pinyin, the usual standard spelling system for Mandarin (as used in the example of Qingdao in this article), the letters "macao" would be pronounced "ma-tsao", not "ma-kao". Also, it's always been my understanding that the Chinese name of the place is 澳门 (Aomen), not "Macao". GeoEvan (talk) 14:02, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]