DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

吐瓦魯

简吐瓦鲁 · 繁吐瓦魯

Mandarin · pinyin Tǔ wǎ lǔ

Tuvalu, island country in the SW Pacific (Tw)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

吐: tǔ · vomit, spew out, cough up
瓦: wǎ · tile; earthenware pottery; girl
魯: Look up this written character
鲁: lǔ · foolish, stupid, rash; vulgar

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

3–3–3 · Tu3 wa3 lu3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

3character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

吐瓦魯 · find source passages ↗ · 吐瓦鲁 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Rime · Wiktionary

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

tou3 ngaa5 lou5

Cantonese word readings for 吐瓦魯. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

(chiefly Taiwan) Tuvalu (a country and archipelago of Polynesia in Oceania)

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack