利默里克

Lìmòlǐkè
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 Limerick (city in Ireland)
  2. 2 Limerick (county and city on Ireland's west coast)

Examples

Lìmòlǐkè shì Ài'ěrlán de dì sān dà chéngshì.
Limerick is Ireland's third-largest city.
Wǒmen qùnián zài Lìmòlǐkè guòle yī gè zhōumò.
We spent a weekend in Limerick last year.

Tips

culture
Phonetic transliteration of "Limerick" — the Irish city on the River Shannon. The five-line humorous poem form called a "limerick" in English (also said to take its name from the city) is rendered in Chinese as 五行打油诗 (wǔháng dǎyóushī, five-line doggerel verse), not 利默里克.

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