| 乔治城大学 |
Qiáo zhì chéng Dà xué |
Georgetown University in Washington D.C., famous as quality Jesuit university and for its basketball team |
| 乔 |
Qiáo |
surname Qiao |
| 乔 |
qiáo |
tall |
| 乔治 |
Qiáo zhì |
George (name) |
| 乔治城 |
Qiáo zhì chéng |
Georgetown / (the spelling 乔治敦 is more common) |
| 治 |
zhì |
to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research |
| 城 |
chéng |
city walls / city / town / CL:座,道,个 |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 大学 |
Dà xué |
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism |
| 大学 |
dà xué |
university / college / CL:所 |
| 学 |
xué |
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology |