隆德

Lóngdé
proper noun #37,515

Meanings

  1. 1 Longde (county in Guyuan, Ningxia, China)
  2. 2 Lund (Swedish university city, in some translations)

Examples

HSK 4
Tā zài Ruìdiǎn de Lóngdé Dàxué dú bóshì.
He's doing a PhD at Lund University in Sweden.
HSK 5
Lóngdé Xiàn wèiyú Níngxià nánbù.
Longde County is in the south of Ningxia.

Tips

usage
Two unrelated places, same characters: (1) 隆德县 in Ningxia, part of 固原市, on the Loess Plateau; (2) the Swedish city of Lund, transliterated identically. Context (province name vs. 瑞典/大学) tells you which.

In Pop Culture

隆德大学 Lóngdé Dàxué
Lund University
One of Sweden's oldest universities (founded 1666); the Chinese name 隆德大学 doubles as the transliteration of 'Lund'.

Stroke Order

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