布拉柴维尔

布拉柴維爾

Bùlācháiwéi'ěr

proper noun

Meanings

1 Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo

Characters

cloth (used for transliteration)

pull (used for transliteration)

firewood (used for transliteration)

maintain (used for transliteration)

you (literary; used for transliteration)

Examples

HSK 5

布拉柴维尔和金沙萨隔着刚果河，两座首都离得很近。

Bùlācháiwéi'ěr hé Jīnshāsà gé zhe Gāngguǒhé, liǎng zuò shǒudū lí de hěn jìn.

Brazzaville and Kinshasa face each other across the Congo River, and the two capitals are very close.

HSK 6

布拉柴维尔在刚果河北岸。

Bùlācháiwéi'ěr zài Gāngguǒhé běi'àn.

Brazzaville is on the north bank of the Congo River.

Tips

history

The city is named after the explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, who founded it in 1880. Since both countries are called Congo, Chinese tells them apart by capital: the Republic of the Congo is 刚果（布）, the Democratic Republic 刚果（金）, after Kinshasa.

Stroke Order

布 bù

拉 lā

柴 chái

维 wéi

尔 ěr