首尔

首爾
Shǒuěr
Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese name adopted in 2005 to replace 汉城 Hànchéng)

CEDICT

Homographs

首尔 Shǒu'ěr

Examples

首尔是韩国的首都。

Seoul is the capital of South Korea.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 首 shǒu
  1. head
  2. chief
  3. first (occasion, thing etc)
  4. classifier for poems, songs etc
=2 尔 ěr variant of 尔 ěr
=2 尔 ěr
  1. thus
  2. so
  3. like that
  4. you
  5. thou

Containing this entry

国立首尔大学 Guólì Shǒuěr Dàxué Seoul National University SNU
首尔国立大学 Shǒuěr Guólì Dàxué Seoul National University (SNU or Seoul National), Korea
首尔特别市 Shǒuěr Tèbiéshì Seoul Special Metropolitan City, official name of the capital of South Korea