可可西里

Kěkěxīlǐ

proper noun

Meanings

1 Hoh Xil, high-plateau wilderness in northwestern Qinghai and a nature reserve for the Tibetan antelope

Characters

A transliteration of the Mongolian name Hoh Xil, "blue ridge".

Examples

HSK 6

可可西里海拔四千多米，很少有人居住。

Kěkěxīlǐ hǎibá sìqiān duō mǐ, hěnshǎo yǒu rén jūzhù.

Hoh Xil lies over 4,000 metres above sea level, and hardly anyone lives there.

HSK 7-9

可可西里是藏羚羊的家园。

Kěkěxīlǐ shì zànglíngyáng de jiāyuán.

Hoh Xil is the home of the Tibetan antelope.

Tips

history

In the 1990s poachers shot thousands of Tibetan antelope here for their wool. The local patrol leader 杰桑·索南达杰 was killed by poachers in 1994, and the patrols that followed made Hoh Xil a symbol of conservation. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017.

In Pop Culture

可可西里 Kěkěxīlǐ

Kekexili: Mountain Patrol

Lu Chuan's 2004 film about the volunteer patrols who hunted antelope poachers here, shot on location at over 4,000 metres.

Stroke Order

可 kě

西 xī

里 lǐ