马尔地夫

馬爾地夫
Mǎ'ěrdìfū
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 the Maldives (Taiwanese transliteration)

Examples

Tāmen qù Mǎ'ěrdìfū dù mìyuè le.
They went to the Maldives for their honeymoon.
Mǎ'ěrdìfū yóu xǔduō shānhúdǎo zǔchéng.
The Maldives is made up of many coral islands.

Tips

usage
Taiwan and Hong Kong write 马尔地夫; mainland China usually writes 马尔代夫 (Mǎ'ěrdàifū). Same country, different transliteration conventions.
culture
An island nation in the Indian Ocean — about 1,200 islands grouped into 26 atolls. Lowest country in the world (average elevation 1.5 m), making it especially vulnerable to sea-level rise.

Stroke Order

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