新加坡 (Xīnjiāpō): Singapore (city-state in Southeast Asia)

Meanings

Literally 'new added slope.' A phonetic transliteration of 'Singapore,' which itself comes from Sanskrit 'Singapura' (Lion City).

Xīnjiāpō shì yí gè hěn xiǎo dàn hěn fādá de guójiā.

Singapore is a very small but highly developed country.

Wǒ zài Xīnjiāpō chī le hěn duō hǎochī de.

I ate a lot of delicious food in Singapore.

culture

Singapore is known in Chinese as 狮城 (Shīchéng, 'Lion City'). The country has four official languages: English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil.

新 xīn

加 jiā

坡 pō