贝尔格勒

貝爾格勒

Bèi'ěrgélè

popculture

Meanings

1 Belgrade (capital of Serbia)

Characters

shell (phonetic)

pattern (phonetic)

rein (phonetic)

Examples

贝尔格勒位于多瑙河和萨瓦河的交汇处。

Bèi'ěrgélè wèiyú Duōnǎo Hé hé Sàwǎ Hé de jiāohuì chù.

Belgrade sits at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers.

1999年北约轰炸了中国驻贝尔格勒大使馆。

Yī jiǔ jiǔ jiǔ nián Běiyuē hōngzhà le Zhōngguó zhù Bèi'ěrgélè dàshǐguǎn.

In 1999 NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Tips

history

For Chinese audiences, 贝尔格勒 is inseparable from the May 7 1999 NATO bombing of the PRC embassy (中国驻南斯拉夫大使馆), which killed three Chinese journalists and triggered nationwide protests in China. The incident is still cited regularly in PRC commentary on US foreign policy.

usage

贝尔格勒 is the standard mainland transliteration. Taiwanese sources sometimes write 貝爾格萊德, closer to the English pronunciation.

Stroke Order

贝 bèi

尔 ěr

格 gé

勒 lè