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新加坡

Xīnjiāpō
noun #15,375

Meanings

  1. 1 Singapore (city-state in Southeast Asia)

Characters

新
xīn
new; fresh
加
jiā
to add; to increase
坡
pō
slope; hillside
Literally 'new added slope.' A phonetic transliteration of 'Singapore,' which itself comes from Sanskrit 'Singapura' (Lion City).

Examples

HSK 1
我在新加坡吃了很多好吃的。
Wǒ zài Xīnjiāpō chī le hěnduō hǎochī de.
I ate a lot of delicious food in Singapore.
HSK 5
新加坡是一个很小但很发达的国家。
Xīnjiāpō shì yígè hěn xiǎo dàn hěn fādá de guójiā.
Singapore is a very small but highly developed country.

Tips

culture
Singapore is known in Chinese as 狮城 ('Lion City'). The country has four official languages: English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil.

Stroke Order

新 xīn
加 jiā
坡 pō