君士坦丁堡

Jūnshìtǎndīngbǎo

proper noun #35,479

Meanings

1 Constantinople (capital of the Byzantine Empire, today's Istanbul)

Characters

monarch (phonetic 'cons-')

scholar (phonetic '-st-')

level (phonetic '-tan-')

fourth / nail (phonetic '-tin-')

fortress / -burg (semantic: -ople/city)

Examples

HSK 4

君士坦丁堡如今叫伊斯坦布尔。

Jūnshìtǎndīngbǎo rújīn jiào Yīsītǎnbù'ěr.

Constantinople is now called Istanbul.

HSK 7-9

1453年，奥斯曼土耳其攻陷了君士坦丁堡。

Yī sì wǔ sān nián, Àosīmàn Tǔ'ěrqí gōngxiàn le Jūnshìtǎndīngbǎo.

In 1453, the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople.

Tips

history

Founded in 330 AD by Emperor 君士坦丁 (Constantine), capital of the Eastern Roman / Byzantine Empire for over a thousand years. Its 1453 fall to Mehmed II is conventionally taken as the end of the Middle Ages. After the Turkish republican reform of 1930 the city was officially renamed 伊斯坦布尔 (Istanbul).

Stroke Order

君 jūn

士 shì

坦 tǎn

丁 dīng

堡 bǎo