哥本哈根

Gēběnhāgēn
noun #21,917

Meanings

  1. 1 Copenhagen (capital of Denmark)

Examples

Gēběnhāgēn shì Dānmài de shǒudū.
Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark.
Wǒmen zài Gēběnhāgēn cānguān le měirényú diāoxiàng.
We visited the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen.

Tips

memory
The four characters are purely phonetic: 哥本哈根 sounds like 'Ko-pen-ha-gen', a close match to the Danish 'København'. The (gē, older brother) and (gēn, root) are just phonetic carriers.

Stroke Order

běn
gēn