| 北大西洋公约组织 |
Běi Dà xī Yáng Gōng yuē Zǔ zhī |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO |
| 北 |
běi |
north / (classical) to be defeated |
| 北大 |
Běi Dà |
Peking University (abbr. for 北京大学) |
| 北大西洋 |
Běi Dà xī yáng |
North Atlantic |
| 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 |
| 大西 |
Dà xī |
Ōnishi (Japanese surname) |
| 大西洋 |
Dà xī yáng |
Atlantic Ocean |
| 西 |
Xī |
the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙 / Spanish |
| 西 |
xī |
west |
| 西洋 |
Xī yáng |
the West (Europe and North America) / countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional) |
| 洋 |
yáng |
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin |
| 公 |
gōng |
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) |
| 公约 |
gōng yuē |
convention (i.e. international agreement) |
| 约 |
yāo |
to weigh in a balance or on a scale |
| 约 |
yuē |
to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise |
| 组 |
Zǔ |
surname Zu |
| 组 |
zǔ |
to form / to organize / group / team / classifier for sets, series, groups of people, batteries |
| 组织 |
zǔ zhī |
to organize / organization / (biology) tissue / (textiles) weave / CL:个 |
| 织 |
zhī |
to weave |