明古鲁市

明古魯市

Mínggǔlǔshì

proper noun

Meanings

1 Bengkulu, capital of Bengkulu Province on the southwest coast of Sumatra, Indonesia

Characters

bright (transliteration)

ancient (transliteration)

(transliteration syllable)

Examples

HSK 7-9

明古鲁市位于苏门答腊岛西南海岸。

Mínggǔlǔshì wèiyú Sūméndálà dǎo xīnán hǎi'àn.

Bengkulu is on the southwestern coast of Sumatra.

HSK 7-9

苏加诺曾被荷兰人流放到明古鲁。

Sūjiānuò céng bèi Hélán rén liúfàng dào Mínggǔlǔ.

Sukarno was once exiled to Bengkulu by the Dutch.

Tips

history

Originally a British East India Company outpost called Bencoolen (1685-1824); Britain traded it to the Dutch for Malacca in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824. Indonesian president-to-be Sukarno was exiled here from 1938 to 1942.

Stroke Order

明 míng

古 gǔ

鲁 Lǔ

市 shì