The early Mandarin Chinese or possibly Wu Chinese word for Japan was recorded by Marco Polo as Cipangu. [6] The Malay and Indonesian words Jepang , Jipang , and Jepun were borrowed from non-Mandarin Chinese languages, and this Malay word was encountered by Portuguese traders in Malacca in the 16th century.

2008年6月15日 · Because of his book, The Travels of Marco Polo, Europeans believed that “Zipangu” was a land of gold, and Columbus later sailed across the Atlantic in search of it. Gold was first discovered in Japan in 749, in river deposits.

《马可波罗游记》 中对于日本的称呼是 Cipango，可能是当时吴语中「日本国」的发音。 （为什么？ 比如中国叫做「China」是因为出口陶瓷，所以以陶瓷「china」代指「中国」。 而「日本」叫做「Japan」是出…

However, in the late 13th century, Marco Polo, the famous merchant from Venice, portrayed Japan as Cipangu, a country rich in gold. Later, between 1540 and 1640, Japan was a major player in the world silver flows, and the country exported large quantities of copper in trade with China and the Netherlands.

2002年10月1日 · Columbus, a master mariner then in the service of Spain, and an avid reader, was searching for Cipangu (Japan), the island of “endless gold,” about which he had read with great excitement in Marco Polo’s Travels. Convinced that fabled Cipangu was not far from the small island on which he had landed, Columbus went ashore and, unfurling ...

日本Japan是东方航线上的外来词,按日语的罗马字转写应为Nippon或Nihon,意为日出之地,最早马可波罗写日本国用的是Cipangu,来自吴越一代的古汉语,古马来语中为Jepang,来自当地华人的方言,葡萄牙人就是借了这个词,英语是其变体.漆器因日本而得名而不是相反.

日本首次在西方文学中出现在《马可波罗游记》中，马可波罗将日本记作Cipangu，相信马可波罗纪录当时了中古汉语（或当时的吴语）中“日本”的发音。 即使现代的上海话（吴语的一种方言）仍然将日本读作Zeppen [zəʔpən]。 4.普及一下各国对日本的称呼。 中古马来语中称日本为Jepang，现在写法为Jepun。 大航海时期，十六世纪，葡萄牙人经过马六甲海峡进行东南亚海贸遇到了这个名字，并带回欧洲，在葡萄牙语中日本叫做Japão。 后来在英语中正式出现于1577 …

2019年4月13日 · 日本首次在西方文学中出现在《马可波罗游记》中，马可波罗将日本记作Cipangu，相信马可波罗纪录当时了中古汉语（或当时的吴语）中“日本”的发音。

2017年12月28日 · 日本首次在西方文學中出現在《馬可波羅遊記》中，馬可波羅將日本記作Cipangu，相信馬可波羅紀錄當時了中古漢語（或當時的吳語）中「日本」的發音。

2018年11月23日 · His tall tales of great riches and fierce knights would enter popular parlance. Two centuries later, Christopher Columbus would set out in search of the Spice Islands and this legendary Cipangu, sailing west in the hope of reaching the …