首爾

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

CEDICT

Homographs

首爾 Shǒu'ěr

Examples

首爾是韓國的首都。

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 爾 ěr
  1. thus
  2. so
  3. like that
  4. you
  5. thou

Containing this entry

國立首爾大學 Guólì Shǒuěr Dàxué Seoul National University SNU
首爾國立大學 Shǒuěr Guólì Dàxué Seoul National University (SNU or Seoul National), Korea
首爾特別市 Shǒuěr Tèbiéshì Seoul Special Metropolitan City, official name of the capital of South Korea