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美索不達米亞
简 美索不达米亚 · 繁 美索不達米亞Mandarin · pinyin Měi suǒ bù dá mǐ yà
Meanings
- Mesopotamia
Characters in this entry
- 美
- měi · beautiful, pretty; pleasing
- 索
- suǒ · large rope, cable; rules, laws; to demand, to exact; to search, inquire; isolated
- 不
- bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
- 達
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- 米
- mǐ · hulled or husked uncooked rice
- 亞
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- 达
- dá · arrive at, reach; intelligent; smooth, slippery
- 亚
- yà · Asia; second
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3–3–4–2–3–4 · Mei3 suo3 bu4 da2 mi3 ya4
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name
- (history) Mesopotamia (a geographic region in southwest Asia, spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, located in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeast Turkey; the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man)
- (history) Mesopotamia (a former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 116 to 117 AD and again from 198 to 637 AD)
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