新西伯利亚市

新西伯利亞市

Xīnxībólìyàshì

proper noun

Meanings

1 Novosibirsk, city in Russia
2 the third-largest city in Russia, in southwestern Siberia

Characters

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(transliteration: -ia)

Examples

HSK 3

新西伯利亚市是俄罗斯第三大城市。

Xīnxībólìyàshì shì Éluósī dìsān dàchéngshì.

Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia.

HSK 7-9

新西伯利亚市位于西伯利亚铁路沿线。

Xīnxībólìyàshì wèiyú Xībólìyà tiělù yánxiàn.

Novosibirsk lies along the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Tips

culture

The name parses as 新 'New' + 西伯利亚 'Siberia' + 市 'city' - a literal calque of Russian Новосибирск ('New Siberian'). It's a young city by Russian standards (founded 1893 around a Trans-Siberian Railway bridge over the Ob River) and grew explosively as a Soviet science hub - Akademgorodok (科学城 'Science City') sits just outside it.

memory

Compare 西伯利亚 'Siberia' alone - the prefix 新 'new' just adds the 'Novo-' part. Don't confuse with 西伯 (Xībó, 'Siberian/Xibe ethnic name').

Stroke Order

新 xīn

西 xī

伯 bó

利 lì

亚 Yà

市 shì