DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

阿迪斯阿貝巴

简阿迪斯阿贝巴 · 繁阿迪斯阿貝巴

Mandarin · pinyin Ā dí sī Ā bèi bā

Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia (Tw)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

阿: ā · prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
迪: dí · enlighten, advance; progress
斯: sī · this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle
貝: Look up this written character
巴: bā · greatly desire, anxiously hope
贝: bèi · sea shell; money, currency

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–2–1–1–4–1 · A1 di2 si1 A1 bei4 ba1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

5character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

阿迪斯阿貝巴 · find source passages ↗ · 阿迪斯阿贝巴 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗