杜伦

杜倫

Dùlún

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Meanings

1 Durham (English city and university)
2 (also a foreign surname rendering: Duren / Duran)

Characters

Du (surname) / to stop (used phonetically here)

human relations (used phonetically here)

Examples

杜伦大学是英国最古老的大学之一。

Dùlún Dàxué shì Yīngguó zuì gǔlǎo de dàxué zhī yī.

Durham University is one of the oldest universities in England.

他在杜伦读了三年书。

Tā zài Dùlún dúle sān nián shū.

He studied at Durham for three years.

Tips

culture

Durham is a small cathedral city in northeast England. Durham University (杜伦大学), founded 1832, is the third-oldest in England after Oxford and Cambridge. Some mainland sources also write 达勒姆 for Durham — both are in active use.

Stroke Order

杜 dù

伦 lún