不丹 (Bù dān) — Bhutan

Definition

Examples

  • 不丹。
    Wǒ qù nián qù le Bù dān lǚ yóu.
    I traveled to Bhutan last year.
  • 不丹,。
    Bù dān Shì gè hěn xiǎo de guó jiā, wèi yú zhōng guó hé yìn dù zhī jiān.
    Bhutan is a very small country, located between China and India.
  • 不丹。
    Bù dān De guó wáng hěn shòu huān yíng.
    Bhutan's king is very popular.

Origin

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The picture in 不 originally showed a flower’s calyx; the “no” sense came later from a related character, not from this picture.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape 丹 shows a well or mine with red cinnabar inside.

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