金夏沙

Jīnxiàshā

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Meanings

1 Kinshasa (capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Taiwan usage)

Characters

gold (transliteration syllable)

summer (transliteration syllable)

sand (transliteration syllable)

Examples

金夏沙是非洲最大的法语城市之一。

Jīnxiàshā shì Fēizhōu zuì dà de Fǎyǔ chéngshì zhīyī.

Kinshasa is one of the largest French-speaking cities in Africa.

他们从金夏沙飞往布鲁塞尔。

Tāmen cóng Jīnxiàshā fēi wǎng Bùlǔsài'ěr.

They flew from Kinshasa to Brussels.

Tips

usage

金夏沙 is the Taiwan-standard transliteration. Mainland sources usually write 金沙萨 (Jīnshàsà) for the same city.

history

Known as Léopoldville (利奥波德维尔 Lì'àobōdéwéi'ěr) until 1966, when President Mobutu renamed it as part of his Africanization (zhèngmíng-yùndòng, name-rectification) campaign.

Stroke Order

金 jīn

夏 xià

沙 shā