乌托邦

烏托邦

wūtuōbāng

noun #13,553

Measure Word

一个乌托邦 gè

Meanings

1 utopia
2 an ideal but unrealizable society

Characters

crow (here phonetic)

to support (here phonetic)

country; state (here phonetic)

Examples

HSK 2

他的计划听起来像是乌托邦。

Tā de jìhuà tīngqǐlái xiàng shì wūtuōbāng.

His plan sounds like a utopia.

Tips

history

A phonetic loanword from English 'utopia', which itself comes from Thomas More's 1516 book. The Chinese characters 乌托邦 carry no independent meaning - they are purely phonetic.

Stroke Order

乌 wū

托 tuō

邦 bāng