| 外高加索 |
Wài Gāo jiā suǒ |
Transcaucasia, aka the South Caucasus |
| 外 |
wài |
outside / in addition / foreign / external |
| 高 |
Gāo |
surname Gao |
| 高 |
gāo |
high / tall / above average / loud / your (honorific) |
| 高加索 |
Gāo jiā suǒ |
Caucasus / Caucasian |
| 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)") |
| 索 |
Suǒ |
surname Suo / abbr. for 索马里, Somalia |
| 索 |
suǒ |
to search / to demand / to ask / to exact / large rope / isolated |