| 亚美利加洲 |
Yà měi lì jiā Zhōu |
America / abbr. to 美洲 |
| 亚 |
Yà |
Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3] |
| 亚 |
yà |
second / next to / inferior / sub- / Taiwan pr. [ya3] |
| 亚美利加 |
Yà měi lì jiā |
America |
| 美 |
Měi |
(bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲) / (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) |
| 美 |
měi |
beautiful / very satisfactory; good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself |
| 利 |
Lì |
surname Li |
| 利 |
lì |
sharp / favorable / advantage / benefit / profit / interest / to do good to / to benefit |
| 加 |
Jiā |
Canada (abbr. for 加拿大) / surname Jia |
| 加 |
jiā |
to add / (math.) plus / to increase; to augment / (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不, 大, 稍 etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良 "make some minor improvements to (it)") |
| 洲 |
zhōu |
continent / island in a river |