noun
Ecuador
Name of the South American country. Written in katakana in normal modern Japanese; the kanji form is a rare phonetic ateji spelling.
エクアドルは南米の国です。
Ecuador is a country in South America.
いつかエクアドルに行ってみたい。
I would like to go to Ecuador someday.
Standard practical katakana spelling for the country name; this word is usually written in kana.
Rare ateji kanji spelling marked as phonetic and rarely used; mainly useful for recognition in older or stylized text.
A katakana country name. The rare kanji spelling 厄瓜多 is ateji, so the characters represent the sound rather than the meanings of the individual kanji; no borrowing route is specified.