Sī
Slovakia
Slovak
abbr. for 斯洛伐克[Si1 luo4 fa2 ke4]
sà sī
SARS
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Tū ní sī
Tunisia
Tunis, capital of Tunisia
Sī dé gē ěr mó
Stockholm, capital of Sweden
Lǐ sī běn
Lisbon, capital of Portugal
Ēn gé sī
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), socialist philosopher and one of the founder of Marxism
Kǎi ēn sī
Keynes (name)
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), influential British economist
Mò sī kē
Moscow, capital of Russia
Ā mǔ sī tè dān
Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands
Lǐ Sī
Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and Prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC
Sī lǐ lán kǎ
Sri Lanka
(formerly) Ceylon
Fú ěr mó sī
Sherlock Holmes, 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯[Xie1 luo4 ke4 · Fu2 er3 mo2 si1]
Sī luò fá kè
Slovak
Slovak republic (from 1992)
Slovakia
Luó sī fú
Roosevelt (name)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945
bèi sī
bass (loanword)
bass guitar
Bes or Bisu, Egyptian protector god of households
Sī dà lín
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Jiā mù sī
Kiamusze or Jiamusi prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
sī wén
refined
educate
cultured
intellectual
polite
gentle
xiē sī dǐ lǐ
hysteria (loanword)
hysterical
Zhān mǔ sī
James (name)
LeBron James (1984-), NBA player
Luó sī
Roth (name)
Kenneth Roth (1955-), executive director of Human Rights Watch 人權觀察|人权观察[Ren2 quan2 Guan1 cha2]
Ào sī kǎ
Oscar, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annual award
CL:屆|届[jie4]
Nà bù lè sī
Napoli, capital of Campania region of Italy
Naples
È ěr duō sī
Ordos, region of Inner Mongolia administered as a prefecture-level city, and a people of the region
kā sī tè
karst (loanword)
weathered limestone often forming caves
Sī tú jiā tè
Stuttgart city in southwest Germany and capital of Baden-Württemberg 巴登·符騰堡州|巴登·符腾堡州[Ba1 deng1 · Fu2 teng2 bao3 zhou1]
Bā sī
Bath city in southwest England
È ěr duō sī shì
Ordos prefecture level city in Inner Mongolia
Sī nuò
Snow (name)
Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China
Fēi ěr pǔ sī
Phelps (name)
Michael Phelps (1985-), US swimmer and multiple Olympic gold medallist
Yī lái kè sī
Electrolux (Swedish manufacturer of home appliances)
Dá wò sī
Davos (Swiss ski resort)
Davos world economic forum (WEF)
Dá wò sī lùn tán
Davos world economic forum (WEF)
Pǔ luó wàng sī
Provence (south of France)
Tāng mǔ · Kè lǔ sī
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
Suǒ luó sī
Soros (name)
George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
Dào Qióng sī
Dow Jones
Dow Jones industrial average (Wall street stock market index)
abbr. for 道瓊斯指數|道琼斯指数[Dao4 Qiong2 si1 zhi3 shu4]
Ài yīn sī tǎn
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), famous Austrian physicist
Tuō ěr sī tài
Tolstoy (name)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
Fú bù sī
Forbes (US publisher)
Forbes magazine
Yóu wén tú sī
Juventus, Italian football team
Pà sī
Perth, capital of Western Australia
Qiáo bù sī
Jobs (name)
see also 史蒂夫·喬布斯|史蒂夫·乔布斯[Shi3 di4 fu1 · Qiao2 bu4 si1], Steve Jobs
Wéi nà sī
Venus (mythology, Roman goddess of love)
Gāo sī
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician
Gauss, unit of magnetic induction
ào tè lái sī
outlets (loanword)
retail outlet (e.g. specializing in seconds of famous brands)
factory outlet retail store
É luó sī lián bāng
Russian federation, RSFSR
Léi kè sà sī
Lexus
see also 凌志[Ling2 zhi4]
Ā dí dá sī
Adidas (sportswear company)
Jiā mù sī shì
Kiamusze or Jiamusi prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
Sī kē dá
Škoda, Czech Republic car manufacturer, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group
Ā ěr sà sī
Alsace, French department
Bù lǐ sī bān
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
Lǐ sī tè
Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer
Joseph Lister (1883-1897), British surgeon and bacteriologist
Bù yí nuò sī Ài lì sī
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina
Ào sī tīng
Austin or Austen (name)
Austin, Texas
Yuē hàn nèi sī bǎo
Johannesburg, South Africa
Sī mì
Smith (name)
also rendered as 史密斯
Lài sī
Rice (name)
Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State 2005-2009
Fēi ní kè sī
Phoenix, capital of Arizona
also 鳳凰城|凤凰城[Feng4 huang2 cheng2]
Fú sī tè
Foster or Forster (name)
Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), American composer
Ào sī kǎ jīn xiàng jiǎng
Academy Awards
Oscars
CL:屆|届[jie4]
Bù dá pèi sī
Budapest, capital of Hungary
Tè kè sī
Tekesi county or Tékes Nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
tex, unit of fiber density used in textile industry defined as mass in grams per 1000 m of fiber (loan)
Lā mò sī
(Philippine President Fidel) Ramos
Lái sī tè
Lester or Leicester (name)
Leicester, English city in East Midlands
Ā bā sī
Abbas (name)
Mahmoud Abbas (1935-), also called Abu Mazen, Palestinian leader, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 2005
Ā ěr bēi sī shān
Alps, mountain range bordering Switzerland
Pò sī
Perth, capital of Western Australia
also written 帕斯
Kǎ sī tè luó
Castro (name)
Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
Ā tè lā sī
Atlas (Titan in Greek mythology)
Atlas mountains of north Africa
Jiā mù sī Dà xué
Jiamusi University (Heilongjiang)
Sī pí ěr bó gé
Steven Spielberg (1946-), US film director
Dào Qióng sī zhǐ shù
Dow Jones industrial average (Wall street stock market index)
Shèng lù yì sī
St Louis, large city in eastern Missouri
Chái kě fū sī jī
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Kè lǐ sī dì ān
Kristian or Christian (name)
mèng fēi sī
Memphis (Egypt, or Tennessee)
màn tiáo sī lǐ
unhurried
calm
composed
leisurely
zhòu sī dùn
Zeus's shield
Aegis combat system (US missile guidance)
Bèi lú sī kē ní
Silvio Berlusconi (1936-), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011
Jié kè Sī luò fá kè
Republic of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992)
Bā sī kè
Basque
the Basque Country
ā sī pǐ lín
aspirin (loanword)
also written 阿司匹林
luó lún sī
Lawrence (city in Kansas, USA)
Jī lǐ bā sī
Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands)
Dí gēng sī
Dickens (name)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
Hā mǎ sī
Hamas (radical Palestinian group)
Mǎ nà sī
Manas, hero of Kyrghiz epic saga
Manas county and town in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Shī tè láo sī
Strauss (name)
Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer
Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
Pà sī kǎ
Pascal (name)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician
Bù jiā lè sī tè
Bucharest, capital of Romania
Ā kā liú sī
Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
Gē sī lā
Godzilla (Japanese ゴジラ Gojira)
Yà dāng · Sī mì
Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish ethical philosopher and pioneer economist, author of The Wealth of Nations 國富論|国富论
Kē tè bù sī
Cottbus (city in Germany)
kā sī tè dì mào
karst landform (weathered limestone, often forming caves)
Dé lèi sī dùn
Dresden, capital of Saxony 薩克森州|萨克森州[Sa4 ke4 sen1 zhou1], Germany
Shèng wén sēn tè hé Gé lín nà dīng sī
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
ā sī lán
Aslan (from the Narnia chronicles)
Mèng dé sī jiū
Charles Montesquieu (1689-1755), French political philosopher
Sī dì wén
Steven (name)
Simon Stevin (1548-1620), Flemish engineer and mathematician, played a key role in introducing the decimal system to Europe
Bā sī dé
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist
Ào sī dīng
Austin or Austen (name)
Austin, Texas
also written 奧斯汀
Yī sī lán bǎo
Islamabad, capital of Pakistan
Ài sī jī mó rén
Eskimo
also called Inuit 因紐特|因纽特
Sī dà lín gé lè
Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)
Míng sī kè
Minsk, capital of Belarus
Liè fū · Tuō ěr sī tài
Tolstoy (name)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
Lā pǔ lā sī
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr
Bristol port city in southwest England
Kē lín sī
Corinth (city of ancient Greece)
Mài kè sī wéi
Maxwell (name)
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves
Bó lā mǔ sī
Brahms (name)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), German romantic composer
Bèi ěr fǎ sī tè
Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland
Bǐ sī mài
Bismarck (name)
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, Minister-President of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890
Bèi tǎ sī màn
Bertelsmann, German media company
Wēi ní sī shāng rén
the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Míng ní ā bō lì sī
Minneapolis, a nameplace in the USA, notably in Minnesota
Bāo háo sī
Bauhaus (German school of modern architecture and design)
Jiā lā jiā sī
Caracas, capital of Venezuela
Dù yī sī bǎo
Duisburg city in the Ruhr 魯爾區|鲁尔区, Germany
Chái kē fū sī jī
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
Bó ēn sī
Burns (name)
Nicholas Burns (1956-), US diplomat, Under-secretary at US State Department from 2005
Tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[Zui4 yu3 Fa2]
Ā sī tǎ nà
Astana, capital of Kazakhstan
Ā ruì sī
Ares, Greek god of war
Mars
Kǎ ěr sī lǔ è
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
Huò jīn sī
Hawkins (name)
also written 霍金
É luó sī zú
Russian ethnic group (of northeast China and Xinjiang etc)
Russian nationality
Russians (of Russia)
Lā mǔ sī fēi ěr dé
Donald Rumsfeld (1932-), former US Secretary of Defense
Ān dì sī shān mài
Andes mountain chain of South America
Bù lán nī · Sī pí ěr sī
Britney Spears (1981-), US pop singer
Dài wéi sī bēi
Davis cup (international tennis team competition)
gé luò nà sī
GLONASS (Globalnaya Navigatsionaya Satelitnaya Sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System), the Russian equivalent of GPS
É luó sī Dì guó
Russian empire (1546-1917)
Ā lā sī
Arras, town in northern France
Dǐ bǐ sī
Thebes, place name in ancient Egypt
Thebes, ancient Greek city state
Ā sī wàng
Aswan (town in south Egypt)
Ào sī wēi xīn
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
Mǎ nà sī xiàn
Manas county in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Sī wǎ xī lǐ yǔ
Swahili (language)
Kiswahili
Lā měi xī sī
Rameses (name of pharaoh)
Sī bīn nuò shā
Baruch or Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677), rationalist philosopher
Hā bā luó fū sī kè
Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China
Xī sī · Lái jié
Heath Ledger, Australian actor (1979-2008)
Sī tǎn yīn
Stein (name)
Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), British adventurer and archaeologist who explorer Xinjiang in early 20th century
È ěr duō sī Gāo yuán
Ordos Plateau, Inner Mongolia
Fú lā dí wò sī tuō kè
Vladivostok (Russian port city)
Chinese name 海參崴|海参崴
Tè kè sī xiàn
Tekesi county or Tékes Nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Pǔ cì máo sī
Portsmouth, southern English seaport
Yīn sī bù lǔ kè
Innsbruck, city in Austria
Méi lǐ sī
Meilisi Daur district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[Qi2 qi2 ha1 er3], Heilongjiang
Hā lì fǎ kè sī
Halifax (name)
Halifax city, capital of Nova Scotia, Canada
Halifax, town in West Yorkshire, England
Kù sī lā
Godzilla (Japanese ゴジラ Gojira)
see also 哥斯拉[Ge1 si1 la1]
Méi sài dé sī Bēn chí
Mercedes Benz
abbr. to 奔馳|奔驰[Ben1 chi2]
É ěr qí sī hé
Irtysh river, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean
Lái sī dà xué
Rice university (Houston, Texas)
Hā bù sī bǎo
Hapsburg (European dynasty)
Fēi sī
Fes (third largest city of Morocco)
É dí pǔ sī
Oedipus, hero of tragedy by Athenian dramatist Sophocles
Dì bì lì sī
T'bilisi, capital of Georgia or Gruzia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚[Ge2 lu3 ji2 ya4]
Dá lèi sī Sà lā mǔ
Dar es Salaam (former capital of Tanzania)
Tāng mǔ sī Bēi
Thomas cup (international badminton team competition)
zhōng sī
katydid or long-horned grasshopper (family Tettigoniidae)
āi sī kù duō
escudo (Spanish and Portugese: shield), former currency of Portugal and other countries
Yà dì sī Yà bèi bā
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
Huì gēng sī
Huygens (name)
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), Dutch mathematician and astronomer
Gé dàn sī kè
Gdansk, city on Baltic in north Poland
Lā bā sī
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia
Qiáo zhì · Suǒ luó sī
George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
Tǎ sī shè
TASS
Information Telegraph Agency of Russia
Luó sī tuō fū
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
Sà sī kā chè wēn
Saskatchewan province, Canada
Wéi ěr niǔ sī
Vilnius, capital of Lithuania
Xīn sī kē shè
Nova Scotia province, Canada
Bā lè sī tǎn Mín zú Quán lì Jī gòu
Palestinian National Authority
Bù rè jīn sī jī
Brzezinski (name)
Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-), Polish-American academic and politician, US National Security Adviser 1977-1981
Luó ěr sī · Luó yī sī
Rolls-Royce (UK company)
also written 勞斯萊斯|劳斯莱斯[Láo sī Lái sī]
Yī sī màn
Eastman (name)
George Eastman (1854-1932), US inventor and founder of Kodak 柯達|柯达[Ke1 da2]
Max F. Eastman (1883-1969), US socialist writer, subsequently severe critic of USSR
Bù lǎng kè sī
The Bronx, borough of New York City
Bronx County (coextensive with The Bronx)
also written 布朗士
Mǎ dé lā sī
Madras or Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[Qin1 nai4], capital of Tamil Nadu on East coast of India
Ào sī wēi xīn jí zhōng yíng
Auschwitz concentration camp
Shèng Ào gǔ sī dīng
St Augustine
Aurelius Augustinus (354-430), theologian and Christian philosopher
Sankt Augustin, suburb of Beuel, Bonn, Germany
Ā sī tú lǐ yà sī
Asturias, northwest Spanish autonomous principality on the bay of Biscay
ancient Spanish kingdom from which the reconquista was based
Gāng dǐ sī shān
Mt Gangdisê (6656m) in southwest Tibet, revered by Tibetans as the center of the universe
Sī dà lín gé lè Zhàn yì
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces
Gé luò sī tè
Gloucester city in southwest England
Yuē hàn sī dùn
Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
Mò sī tè
Mousterian (a Palaeolithic culture)
Sī wǎ tè
Swat province in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
Yī wá · Mén dé sī
Eva Mendes, American actress
Jīn sī dūn
Kingstown, capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kingston, capital of Jamaica
Ā duō ní sī
Adonis, figure in Greek mythology
Xī sī tíng
Sistine (Chapel)
also written 西斯汀
Màn qiē sī tè
Manchester
also written 曼徹斯特|曼彻斯特
Mǎ ěr wéi nà sī qún dǎo
Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)
bǐ sī tè
Brest (the most Western French town)
Fǎ lán dé sī
Flanders, region (state) of Belgium 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]
Kè lǐ sī tīng · Bèi ěr
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Lā jiǎ sī tǎn bāng
Rajasthan (state in India)
Āi dé jiā · Sī nuò
Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China
Hè ěr mò sī
Hermes, in Greek mythology, messenger of the Gods
Zhōng guó Yī sī lán jiào Xié huì
Chinese Patriotic Islamic Association
Kǎ sī dì lì yà
Castilla, old Spanish kingdom
modern Spanish provinces of Castilla-Leon and Castilla-La Mancha
Wēn qiē sī tè
Winchester (town in south England, capital of former kingdom of Wessex)
Sī dì wén sēn
Stevenson or Stephenson (name)
Qián guō ěr Luó sī Měng gǔ zú zì zhì xiàn
Qian Gorlos Mongol autonomous county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
Suǒ fú kè lè sī
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus the King
Wēi sī mǐn sī tè Jiào táng
Westminster Abbey, London
Yī sī fǎ hǎn
Isfahan or Eşfahān, province and city in central Iran
Fǎ lán sī
France (phonetic transliteration)
Gé sī tǎ
Gestalt (loanword)
coherent whole
technical word used in psychology meaning the whole is more than the sum of its parts
holistic
integrated
total
also written 格式塔
Āi niè ā sī
Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid
Chá ěr sī · Dí gēng sī
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
Āi sī kù luó sī
Aeschylus (c. 524 BC -c. 455 BC), Greek tragedian, author of The Persians, Seven against Thebes etc
Bā lè sī tǎn jiě fàng zǔ zhī
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Shèng Láo lún sī hé
St Lawrence River, Canada
Shèng Yuē hàn sī
St John's, capital of Labrador and Newfoundland province, Canada
Luó bó sī bì ěr
Robespierre (name)
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary leader, enthusiastic advocate of reign of terror 1791-1794
Xī gé sī
Higgs (name)
Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higgs mechanism or Higgs boson to explain the mass of elementary particles
Chē lǐ yǎ bīn sī kè
Chelyabinsk town on the eastern flanks of Ural, on trans-Siberian railway
Bǐ sī kāi
Bizkaia or Vizcaya, Spain
Mǎ kè sī · pǔ lǎng kè
Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist who first postulated quantization of energy
Yī sī lán Huì yì Zǔ zhī
Organization of the Islamic Conference
Fú lán xī sī · Péi gēn
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist
Sī wéi ěr dé luò fū
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza
Mù suǒ ěr sī jī
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition
Ōu lǐ bì dé sī
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc
Xī sī tīng
Sistine (Chapel)
also written 西斯廷
Wǎ lǐ sī
Wallis (name)
John Wallis (1616-1703), English mathematician, precursor of Newton
Dōng tū jué sī tǎn
East Turkestan
historical term for Xinjiang
Ā lǐ sī tuō fēn
Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright
Fàn dé Wǎ ěr sī
van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923), Dutch physicist
Zhān mǔ sī · Qiáo yī sī
James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish modernist writer, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Kè lài sī tè chè qí
Christchurch (New Zealand city)
kè lā sī nuò dá ěr
Krasnodar (city in Russia)
Ā ěr tè mí sī
Artemis (Greek goddess of the moon)
Sī wén · Hè dìng
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭|楼兰
Sī tǎn bèi kè
John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist
bā sī dì yà
Bastia (French town on Corsica island)
Kè luó nuò sī
Chronos, Greek God and cannibalistic child abuser, father of Zeus
Sà sī kǎ tōng
Saskatoon city, Saskatchewan, Canada
Sī tè lā tè fú
Stratford (place name)
Stratford-upon-Avon, UK city in Warwickshire and birthplace of William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚[Sha1 shi4 bi3 ya4]
Běi lái yīn · Wēi sī tè fǎ lún zhōu
Nordrhein-Westfalen, state of Germany
Āi niè ā sī jì
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
Měng pà nà sī
Montparnasse (southeast Paris, 14ème arrondissement)
Gé luò sī tè jùn
Gloucestershire county in southwest England
Suǒ luó yà sī dé
Zoroaster, Zarathustra or Zarathushtra (c. 1200 BC), Persian prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism
Méi lǐ sī Dá wò ěr zú qū
Meilisi Daur district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[Qi2 qi2 ha1 er3], Heilongjiang
Ā bá sī wáng cháo
Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
Sī tǎn fó
Stanford (name)
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
kè láo xiū sī
Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888)
Bó nà sī · Lǐ
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and co-creator of the World Wide Web
Wū sū lǐ sī kè
Ussuriisk city in Russian Pacific Primorsky region
previous names include 雙城子|双城子[Shuang1 cheng2 zi5] and Voroshilov 伏羅希洛夫|伏罗希洛夫
É dǐ pǔ sī
Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother
Āi ěr wéi sī · Pǔ léi sī lì
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star
Bō ā sī
Boaz (son of Salmon and Rahab)
Gē ní sī bǎo
(until WWII) Königsberg, capital of East Prussia on the Baltic
(since WWII) Kaliningrad, Russian Republic
Dào gé lā sī · Mài kè ā sè
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
Dé léi fú sī
Dreyfus (name)
Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French artillery officer of Alsatian and Jewish background, infamously imprisoned 1894 in miscarriage of justice
Gāng dǐ sī shān mài
Gangdisê mountain range in southwest Tibet
Méi lǐ sī qū
Meilisi Daur district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[Qi2 qi2 ha1 er3], Heilongjiang
mǎ kè sī wēi ěr
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
Jié xī · Ōu wén sī
Jesse Owens (1913-1980), American athlete
dú wǎ sī
poisonous gas
stinking fart
Kāng sī tǎn chá
Constanta (city in Romania)
Sī fēn kè sī
Sphinx (Egyptian mythical beast)
Yuē hàn · Huò jīn sī
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain
Lā pà sī
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, usually written as 拉巴斯
Ā sī mǎ lā
Asmara, capital of Eritrea
Luó bā qiè fū sī jī
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1793-1856), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry
Sī dà lín gé lè Huì zhàn
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)
also called 斯大林格勒戰役|斯大林格勒战役
Mǎ sī hé
Maas or Meuse River, Western Europe
Dào kǎ sī zú
Taokas, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Yī sī lán shèng zhàn zǔ zhī
Islamic Jihad (Palestinian armed faction)
Mó sī lā
Mothra (Japanese モスラ Mosura), Japanese movie monster
Bó fú sī
Bofors, Swedish arms company involved in major corruption case during 1980s
Kāng duō lì zhā · Lài sī
Rice (name)
Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State from 2005
Yī sī pà ní ào lā
Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
Hā bó mǎ sī
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
Hè sī tí yà
Hestia, goddess of the hearth in Greek mythology, daughter of Chronos and Rhea
Lái sī tè jùn
Leicestershire, English county
Bā sī tè ěr
Basseterre, capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Jí ěr jí sī zú
Kyrgyz ethnic group
also written 柯爾克孜族|柯尔克孜族[Ke1 er3 ke4 zi1 zu2]
Sī dì fēn · Hā pò
Stephen Harper (1959-), Canadian politician, prime minister from 2006
Sī tǎn fó Dà xué
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Nuò mǔ · Qiáo mǔ sī jī
Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)
Dí sī léi lì
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880
Yuē sè fū · Sī dà lín
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Kè lǐ pǔ sī
Cripps (name)
Sir Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), UK socialist politician
Tū ní sī shì
Tunis, capital of Tunisia
Tè tí sī hǎi
Thetys (pre-Cambrian ocean)
Xī kē ěr sī jī
Sikorski (name)
Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minister of Poland from 2007
Zhái lǐ sī
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor to the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system
yuán Nán sī lā fū
former Yugoslavia (1945-1992)
Pān tài kè sī
Pentax, Japanese optics company
Fú sī tǎ fū
Falstaff (Shakespearian character)
Ēn sī hè dé
Enschede, city in the Netherlands
Tè kè sī hé
Tekesi river in Kazakh autonomous prefecture, Xinjiang
mǎ sī nèi
Jules Massenet (1842-1912), French composer
Ā ěr hàn gé ěr sī kè zhōu
Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Ā ěr gē sī
Argus
in Greek mythology, a monster with 100 eyes, transformed into peacock's tail
Zā gé luó sī
Zagros mountains of southwest Iran
sà sī bìng
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
Bā ěr shě fū sī jī
(Charlene) Barshefsky, US trade negotiator
Dōng tū jué sī tǎn yī sī lán yùn dòng
East Turkestan Islamic movement ETIM
Ā qí lǐ sī
Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
Lā tè gé sī dà xué
Rutgers University (Newark, New Jersey)
Luó dé sī dǎo
Rhodes, mediterranean island
Xī gé sī lì zǐ
Higgs particle (particle physics)
Sī pǔ lā Tè lì qún dǎo
Spratly islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam
same as 南沙群島|南沙群岛
Dí é ní suǒ sī
Dionysus, the god of wine in Greek mythology
Xī měng · Shū sī tè
Simon and Schuster, US publisher
Sī mì Yuē sè
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
Ā sī wàng gāo bà
the Aswan dam in south Egypt
Wǔ dé háo sī
Woodhouse or Wodehouse (name)
sī pèi lín
Spelling (e.g. Spelling Entertainment Group)
Fǎ mǎ gǔ sī tǎ
Famagusta (Ammochostos), Cyprus
Nà bù lè sī wáng guó
Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)
ài kè sī guāng
X-ray (loanword)
Röntgen or Roentgen ray
Sī léi bù léi ní chá
Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Hū lǔ mó sī
old Chinese name for Hormuz
now called 霍爾木茲|霍尔木兹
zhōng sī kē
Tettigoniidae (katydids and crickets)
Kǎ sī dì lì yà · lái áng
Castilla-Leon, north Spanish province
Fú luò lēi sī dǎo
Flores, Indonesia
also written 弗洛里斯島|弗洛里斯岛[Fu2 luo4 li3 si1 dao3]
Lù yì sī · Yī nà xī ào · Lú lā · Dá xí ěr wǎ
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth President of Brazil
Lula
Sī dāng dōng
Staunton (name)
Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet, the second-in-command of the Macartney Mission of 1793
Qín sī tuō huò wǎ
Częstochowa (city in Poland)
Jīng sī dūn
Kingstown, capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
(Tw) Kingston, capital of Jamaica
Kǎo kè sī Bào gào
Cox Report
Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military-Commercial Concerns with the PRC (1999); Committee Chairman Republican Rep. Chris Cox
Bō luò niè sī
Polonius (name)
Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet
Chá gē sī qún dǎo
Chagos Archipelago, coral archipelago in tropical Indian Ocean, with Diego Garcia 迪戈·加西亞島|迪戈·加西亚岛 as largest island
Zhēn · Ào sī tīng
Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist
also written 简・奧斯汀|简・奥斯汀[Jiǎn · Ào sī tīng]
gǔ sī tǎ fū · duō léi
Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor
Fàn sī tǎn
(Dianne) Feinstein (US Senator from California)
Wéi ěr sī tè lā sī
Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897), German mathematician
Bō sī jiào
Persian religion
Zoroastrianism or Manicheanism
Kē lì ào lán nà sī
Coriolanus, 1607 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Jiě fàng Bā lè sī tǎn Rén mín Zhèn xiàn
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Pǔ ěr rè wǎ ěr sī jī
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870
abbr. to 普氏
xī sī tǎ ní
Sistani (name of a prominent Iraqi Ayatollah)
Dà ān dì liè sī
Greater Antilles, Caribbean archipelago
Méi sī méi ěr
Mesmer (name)
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian doctor who introduced hypnosis
Xī měng · Pèi léi sī
Shimon Peres, ninth president of Israel
Fàn dé Wǎ ěr sī lì
van der Waals force (valency)
Hàn fú sī
Hønefoss, city (and soccer team) in Buskerud, Norway
Dùn niè sī kè
Donetsk region of W. Ukraine
Sà lán sī kè
Saransk, capital of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia
Tǎ wǎ sī kē
Tabasco (south Mexican state)
Tí mǔ · Luó bīn sī
Tim Robbins, American actor
Yóu lǐ sī · Yī wén sī
Joris Ivens (1898-1989), Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist
Tuó sī tuǒ yě fū sī jī
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[Zui4 yu3 Fa2]
also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基[Tuo2 si1 tuo3 ye1 fu1 si1 ji1]
Dà ān dì liè sī qún dǎo
Greater Antilles, Caribbean archipelago
pà sī kǎ sān jiǎo xíng
Pascal's Triangle (math.)
zhōng sī zǒng kē
Tettigonioidea (katydids and crickets)
Zā gé luó sī shān mài
Zagros mountains of southwest Iran
È ěr duō sī Shā mò
Ordos Desert, Inner Mongolia
Lái sī wò sī dǎo
Lesbos (Greek island in the Aegean sea 愛琴海|爱琴海[Ài qín hǎi])
Fú luò lún dì nuò · Pèi léi sī
Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club
Rü35 sāi ěr sī hǎi mǔ
Rüsselsheim, city in Germany
Tài tè sī · Ān dé luò ní kè sī
Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Suǒ fú kè lǐ sī
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek playwright
Féi tè liè sī tǎ
Fredrikstad (city in Østfold, Norway)
Mò jié sī tè
Modest (name)
Modeste (name)
Dōng tū jué sī tǎn jiě fàng zǔ zhī
East Turkestan liberation organization ETLO (Xinjiang dissident group)
Tuō mǎ sī · Ā kuí nà
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
Luó bó tè · Lù yì sī · Sī dì wén sēn
Robert Louis Stevenson (novelist), author of Treasure Island 金銀島|金银岛
Luó bó tè · Bó ēn sī
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
Ā lā tǎ sī
surname Alatas
Ali Alatas (1932-2008), Indonesian foreign minister (1988-1999)
Dé léi fú sī àn jiàn
Dreyfus affair 1894-1906, notorious political scandal in France case involving antisemitism and miscarriage of justice
Shèng Kè lǔ sī dǎo
Santa Cruz island, off the California coast
Xī gé sī jī zhì
the Higgs mechanism, explaining the mass of elementary particles in the Standard Model
Zhān mǔ sī · Gāo sī lín
James Gosling (1955-), Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Java programming language
Shèng Ān dé liè sī duàn céng
San Andreas fault, California
Sī tè fán nuò pǔ luò sī
Stephanopoulos (e.g. former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos)
Sī tǎn fú · Lái fó shì
Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore
Téng sī bèi gé
Tønsberg (city in Vestfold, Norway)
Mǎ nà sī zhèn
Manas town in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Méi lǐ yà mǔ · Wéi bó sī tè
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
Fú luò lǐ sī dǎo
Flores, Indonesia
also written 弗洛勒斯島|弗洛勒斯岛 [Fú lùo lēi sī dǎo]
Shèng Ān de liè sī duàn céng
San Andreas fault, California
also written 聖安德列斯斷層|圣安德列斯断层
Mǐn kē fū sī jī
Minkowski (name)
Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), German mathematician
Bā lā bā sī
Barabbas (in the Biblical passion story)
Kè lǐ sī dì ān sōng
Kristiansund (city in Norway)
Sī lǐ Bā jiā wān gǎng
Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Brunei
Jí pǔ sī kuā
Gipuzkoa or Guipúzcoa, one of the seven Basque provinces in north Spain
Āi sī tè lǎng
Anders Jonas Angstrom or Ångström (1814-1874), Swedish physicist
Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr hǎi xiá
Bristol channel in southwest England
Xī ěr nèi kē sī
Kirkenes (city in Finnmark, Norway)
Léi mǔ sī tīng
variant of 德國戰車|德国战车, Rammstein (German metal band)
Sāng nèi sī
Sandnes (city in Rogaland, Norway)
nuò sāi sī
Knossos (Minoan palace at Iraklion, Crete)
Bó lā dì sī lā wǎ
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
Tǎ sī kē lā
Tuscola (county in Michigan)
Gé lǐ mǔ sī tǎ
Grimstad (city in Agder, Norway)
Fǎ lán xī sī · Péi gēn
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist
Zhān mǔ sī · Gē sī lín
see 詹姆斯・高斯林[Zhān mǔ sī · Gāo sī lín]
Kǒng sī bèi gé
Kongsberg (city in Norway)
Chá jiā sī Bìng
Chagas disease
American trypanosomiasis
Qiú lì sī · Kǎi sǎ
Julius Caesar, 1599 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Kǎ sī cuì
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia (Tw)
Sī wén · Hǎi dìng
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭|楼兰
also written 斯文·赫定
Zhān mǔ sī · Gē shì lín
see 詹姆斯・高斯林[Zhān mǔ sī · Gāo sī lín]
Sī tài ēn xiè ěr
Steinkjær (city in Trøndelag, Norway)
Ào dí xiū sī
Odysseus, hero of Homer's Odyssey
Gé lín sī bān
Alan Greenspan (1926-), US economist
ā sī bā tè
aspartame C14H18N2O (artificial sweetener)
Bō sī ní yà hé Hēi sāi gē wéi nà gòng hé guó
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tuō luó sī shān
Taurus mountains of south Turkey
Sà ěr pǔ sī bǎo
Sarpsborg (city in Østfold, Norway)
Lè sī bō sī
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
Ào kè sū sī Hé
Oxus River
alternative name for Amu Darya 阿姆河[A1 mu3 He2]
Sī chè dá ěr
Stjørdal (city in Trøndelag, Norway)
Dài lì sī
Dallys, Algerian seaport and naval base
Lín · Dài wéi sī
Lynn E. Davis, US academic and arms control expert, Under-secretary at US State Department 1993-1997
Sī wǎ tè gǔ dì
Swat valley in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
Qiē tè háo sī xué xiào
Charterhouse public school (UK)
Lì nà kè sī
Linux (operating systems)
Lè sī bō sī dǎo
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
Āi wén máo sī
Avonmouth in southwest England
same as the Bristol channel 布里斯托爾海峽|布里斯托尔海峡[Bu4 li3 si1 tuo1 er3 hai3 xia2]
jī xián bèi sī
slap bass (bass guitar technique)
Luó bó tè · Fú luò sī tè
Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet
Lā zī mò fū sī jī
Razumovsky (name)
Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836), Russian diplomat
Péi lǐ kè lì sī
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war
also written 伯裡克利|伯里克利[Bó lǐ kè lì]
bō sī lǐ yà
Bosnia (former Yugoslavia)
Tāng mǔ · Luó bīn sī
Tom Robbins, American novelist
Āi lā tuō sè ní sī
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195 BC), ancient Greek mathematician and inventor
Hè bó sī yì lóng
Herbstosaurus (genus of pterosaur)
Ài dé sī wò ěr
Eidsvoll (city in Norway)
Sī kǎ bó lè Jiāo
Scarborough Shoal (Philippines' name for Huangyan Island)
Fú lā dí wò sī tuō kè
variant of 符拉迪沃斯托克, Vladivostok
Luó sī niè fū
Rosneft (Russian state oil company)
shèng Pān kè lēi sī zhàn
Saint Pancras (London railway station)
Sī fú ěr wǎ ěr
Svolvær (city in Nordland, Norway)
Kè lā sī jīn nuò
Kraskino town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, close to the North Korean border
Ào qiē nuò sī
Oceanus, Titan God of the seas before Poseidon
Tè kè sī shì
Tekesi city in Kazakh autonomous prefecture, Xinjiang
Ào xī nuó sī
Oceanus, Titan God of the seas before Poseidon
Ā lǐ sī tuō fāng
Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright
Āi ào luó sī
Aeolus, Greek God of winds
Fú lái wēi è sī
Flavius (Roman historian of 1st century AD)
Dǐ xī sī hǎi
Thetys (hypothetical ocean between Africa and Eurasia in geological history)
Fǎ lán xī sī · Fěi dí nán
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I
Suǒ gē lā tè sī
Socrates (name)
Jose Socrates, prime minister of Portugal from 2005
Mài kǎi sī líng
rhombus of Michaelis (anatomy)
Yà sī bó gé
see 阿斯佩爾格爾|阿斯佩尔格尔[A1 si1 pei4 er3 ge2 er3]
Yà dāng · Sī mì
Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish ethical philosopher and pioneer economist, author of The Wealth of Nations 國富論|国富论
Yà dāng sī dūn
Adamstown, capital of the Pitcairn Islands
Yī wá · Mén dé sī
Eva Mendes, American actress
Yī sī lán guó
Muslim countries
caliphate
Islamic State (aka IS or ISIL or ISIS)
Yī sī lán Shèng zhàn Zǔ zhī
Islamic Jihad (Palestinian armed faction)
Yī sī lán mǎ bā dé
Islamabad, capital of Pakistan (Tw)
Bó nà sī · Lǐ
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and co-creator of the World Wide Web
É luó sī Lián bāng
Russian Federation, RSFSR
Jié xī · Ōu wén sī
Jesse Owens (1913-1980), American athlete
Kè lǐ sī tīng · Bèi ěr
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Kè lǐ sī dì wá
Julia Kristeva (1941-), Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst, philosopher and literary critic
Tù sī jī
Tuzki, a popular Chinese illustrated rabbit character
Fán sài sī
Taiwan equivalent of 范思哲[Fan4 si1 zhe2]
Liè fū · Tuō ěr sī tài
Tolstoy (name)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
Lè sī bō sī Dǎo
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
Běi lái yīn · Wēi sī tè fǎ lún zhōu
Nordrhein-Westfalen, state of Germany
Bó sī wò sī
Bosworth (name)
Stephen Bosworth (1939-), US academic and diplomat, special representative for policy on North Korea from 2009
Kǎ bā sī jī
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
Kǎ lā kǎ sī
Caracas, capital of Venezuela (Tw)
Kǎ sī tè lǐ
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia
Kǎ sī dì lì yà · Lái áng
Castilla-Leon, north Spanish province
Gǔ sī tǎ fū · Duō léi
Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor
Gǔ sī tǎ fū · Shī tè léi zé màn
Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic)
Shǐ tí fū · Jiǎ bó sī
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
Shǐ tè láo sī
Strauss (name) (Tw)
Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer
Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
Shǐ dì fū · Qiáo bù sī
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
Jí lǐ bā sī
Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands) (Tw)
Lǚ sāi ěr sī hǎi mǔ
Rüsselsheim, city in Germany
Hā bèi mǎ sī
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
Qiáo zhì · Suǒ luó sī
George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
Āi dé jiā · Sī nuò
Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China
Āi niè ā sī Jì
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
Āi ěr wéi sī · Pǔ léi sī lì
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star
Péi lǐ kè lì sī
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war
also written 伯里克利[Bo2 li3 ke4 li4]
Sāi wàn tí sī
Cervantes
abbr. for 米格爾·德·塞萬提斯·薩維德拉|米格尔·德·塞万提斯·萨维德拉[Mi3 ge2 er3 · de2 · Sai1 wan4 ti2 si1 · Sa4 wei2 de2 la1]
Dà Ān dì liè sī Qún dǎo
Greater Antilles, Caribbean archipelago
Ào gǔ sī tǎ
Augusta, capital of Maine
Ào sī tè luò fū sī jī
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer
Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
Ào sī wéi xīn
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
Ào lín bā sī
Olympus, Japanese manufacturer of cameras and optical instruments
Ào là niè sī tǎ dé
Oranjestad, capital of Aruba
rú sī
(literary) in this way
so
Wēi ní sī Shāng rén
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Mèng fēi sī
Memphis (Egypt or Tennessee)
Yóu lǐ sī · Yī wén sī
Joris Ivens (1898-1989), Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist
Bā lè sī tǎn Jiě fàng Zǔ zhī
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Bā sī dì yà
Bastia (French town on Corsica island)
Bù lā gē wéi shēn sī kè
Blagoveshchensk, Russian city on the border with China, administrative center of Amur Oblast 阿穆爾州|阿穆尔州[A1 mu4 er3 Zhou1]
Bù lā tí sī lā wǎ
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia (Tw)
Bù lán nī · Sī pí ěr sī
Britney Spears (1981-), US pop singer
Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr
Bristol port city in southwest England
Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr Hǎi xiá
Bristol Channel in southwest England
Bù lǐ sī bān
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
Bù lǔ tú sī
Brutus (name)
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC), late Roman Republic politician who conspired against Julius Caesar
Lucius Junius Brutus (6th c. BC), founder of the Roman Republic
Bù lǔ mǔ sī bó lǐ
Bloomsbury, London district
Bù lǔ tè sī
Brutus (name)
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC), late Roman Republic politician who conspired against Julius Caesar
Lucius Junius Brutus (6th c. BC), founder of the Roman Republic
Xī sī · Lái jié
Heath Ledger, Australian actor (1979-2008)
Xī gé sī bō sè zǐ
Higgs boson (particle physics)
Xī měng · Pèi léi sī
Shimon Peres, ninth president of Israel
Kāng duō lì zhā · Lài sī
Rice (name)
Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State from 2005
Fú luò lún dì nuò · Pèi léi sī
Florentino Pérez (1947-), Spanish businessman and president of Real Madrid football club
Fú luò lǐ sī dǎo
Flores, Indonesia
also written 弗洛勒斯島|弗洛勒斯岛[Fu2 luo4 lei1 si1 dao3]
Fú lán xī sī · Péi gēn
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist
Bǐ lā tí sī
Pilates (physical fitness system) (Tw)
Huì tè nī · Xiū sī dùn
Whitney Houston (1963-2012), American singer and actress
tuō lā sī
trust (commerce) (loanword)
Tuō ěr sī Gǎng
Tórshavn, capital of Faroe Islands
Tuō mǎ sī · Hā dài
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English author
Tuō mǎ sī · Ā kuí nà
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
Tí mǔ · Luó bīn sī
Tim Robbins (1958-), American actor, director, activist and musician
sī shì tǐ dà
see 茲事體大|兹事体大[zi1 shi4 ti3 da4]
sī pèi ěr tè xiǎo mài
spelt (Triticum spelta) (loanword)
Sī kè lǐ yà bīn
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Russian composer and pianist
Sī tái pǔ sī
Staples (Center), sports arena in Los Angeles
Sī tǎn fú · Lái fó shì
Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore
Sī wén · Hǎi dìng
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭|楼兰[Lou2 lan2]
also written 斯文·赫定
Sī wén · Hè dìng
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭|楼兰
Sī pǔ lā tè lì Qún dǎo
Spratly islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam
same as 南沙群島|南沙群岛[Nan1 sha1 Qun2 dao3]
Sī pǔ tè ní kè
Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite
Sī wǎ xī lǐ yǔ
Swahili (language)
Kiswahili
Sī kē pǔ lǐ
Skopje, capital of Macedonia
Sī dì fēn · Hā pò
Stephen Harper (1959-), Canadian politician, prime minister from 2006
Sī nuò dēng
Edward Snowden (1983-), American surveillance program whistleblower
Pǔ luó wéi dēng sī
Providence, capital of Rhode Island
Pǔ lǔ sī tè
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
Dù lěi sī
Durex, a condom brand name
Dōng Tū jué sī tǎn Yī sī lán Yùn dòng
East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
Dōng Tū jué sī tǎn Jiě fàng Zǔ zhī
East Turkestan Liberation Organization (ETLO), Xinjiang dissident group
Chá kè · Nuò lǐ sī
Chuck Norris (1940-), American martial artist and actor
Chá jiā sī bìng
Chagas disease
American trypanosomiasis
Chá gē sī Qún dǎo
Chagos Archipelago, coral archipelago in tropical Indian Ocean, with Diego Garcia 迪戈·加西亞島|迪戈·加西亚岛[Di2 ge1 · Jia1 xi1 ya4 Dao3] as largest island
Chá ěr sī · Dí gēng sī
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
Gé léi máo sī
Greymouth, town in New Zealand
also written 格雷默斯[Ge2 lei2 mo4 si1]
Sāng dé sī
Sanders (name)
Bernie Sanders, United States Senator from Vermont and 2016 Presidential candidate
Méi lǐ yà mǔ · Wéi bó sī tè
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
Bǐ sī tè
Brest (the most western French town)
Wò kè sī háo ěr
Vauxhall (English car brand and city)
Fǎ lán xī sī · Péi gēn
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist
Fǎ lán xī sī · Fěi dí nán
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I
Tài tè sī · Ān dé luò ní kè sī
Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
pài sī tuō
pesto (Italian sauce) (loanword)
Tāng mǔ · Kè lǔ sī
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
Tāng mǔ · Luó bīn sī
Tom Robbins, American novelist
Tè kè sī Hé
Tekesi River in Kazakh autonomous prefecture, Xinjiang
Tè tí sī Hǎi
Tethys (pre-Cambrian ocean)
Tè sī lā
Tesla (unit)
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian inventor and engineer
Zhēn · Ào sī tīng
Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist
also written 簡·奧斯汀|简·奥斯汀[Jian3 · Ao4 si1 ting1]
Bān kè sī
Banks (surname)
Banksy (UK artist)
Lín · Dài wéi sī
Lynn E. Davis, US academic and arms control expert, Under-secretary at US State Department 1993-1997
Wǎ lì sī hé Fù tú nà
Wallis and Futuna (French island collectivity in the South Pacific)
Wǎ lǐ sī
Wallis (name)
John Wallis (1616-1703), English mathematician, precursor of Newton
Dì lǐ yǎ sī tè
Trieste, port city in Italy
Fú sī
(Tw) Volkswagen (car manufacturer)
Fox Entertainment Group
Yuē sè fū · Sī dà lín
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Yuē hàn · Huò jīn sī
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain
Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist
Yuē hàn · Huò jīn sī Dà xué
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Suǒ fú kè lǐ sī
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek playwright
Luó bó tè · Bó ēn sī
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
Luó bó tè · Fú luò sī tè
Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet
Luó lún sī
Lawrence (city in Kansas, USA)
Luó dé sī Dǎo
Rhodes, Mediterranean island
Luó gé sī Dà xué
Rutgers University (New Jersey)
Luó ěr sī · Luó yī sī
Rolls-Royce (UK company)
also written 勞斯萊斯|劳斯莱斯[Lao2 si1 Lai2 si1]
Shèng Kè lǔ sī Dǎo
Santa Cruz Island, off the California coast
Shèng Láo lún sī Hé
St Lawrence River, Canada
Shèng ān de liè sī Duàn céng
San Andreas Fault, California
also written 聖安德列斯斷層|圣安德列斯断层
Shèng ān dé liè sī Duàn céng
San Andreas Fault, California
Fàn sī tǎn
Dianne Feinstein (1933-), US Senator from California
Mò ní kǎ · Lái wēn sī jī
Monica Lewinsky (1973-), former White House intern
Lái sī Dà xué
Rice University (Houston, Texas)
Lái sī wò sī Dǎo
Lesbos (Greek island in the Aegean Sea 愛琴海|爱琴海[Ai4 qin2 Hai3])
Lái wēn sī jī
Monica Lewinsky (1973-), former White House intern
Qiú lì sī · Kǎi sǎ
Julius Caesar, 1599 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Xī sī tǎ ní
Sistani (name of a prominent Iraqi Ayatollah)
Xī měng · Shū sī tè
Simon and Schuster, US publisher
Zhān mǔ sī · Qiáo yī sī
James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish modernist writer, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Zhān mǔ sī · Gē shì lín
see 詹姆斯·高斯林[Zhan1 mu3 si1 · Gao1 si1 lin2]
Zhān mǔ sī · Gē sī lín
see 詹姆斯·高斯林[Zhan1 mu3 si1 · Gao1 si1 lin2]
Zhān mǔ sī · Gāo sī lín
James Gosling (1955-), Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Java programming language
Nuò mǔ · Qiáo mǔ sī jī
Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)
Bèi yè sī
Bayes (name)
Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), English mathematician and theologian
Hè lā sī
Horace, full Latin name Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC), Roman poet
Jiǎ bó sī
Jobs (name)
see also 史提夫·賈伯斯|史提夫·贾伯斯[Shi3 ti2 fu1 · Jia3 bo2 si1], Steve Jobs
Jiǎ sī tīng · Bǐ bà
Justin Bieber (1994-), Canadian singer
Dào gé lā sī · Mài kè ā sè
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
Ā bá sī Wáng cháo
Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
Ā sī bó gé
see 阿斯佩爾格爾|阿斯佩尔格尔[A1 si1 pei4 er3 ge2 er3]
Ā sī pèi ěr gé ěr
Hans Asperger (1906-1980), Austrian pediatrician
Ā sī lán
Aslan (from the Narnia chronicles)
Ā dí sī Ā bèi bā
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia (Tw)
É ěr qí sī Hé
Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean
Mǎ kè sī · Pǔ lǎng kè
Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist who first postulated quantization of energy
Mǎ kè sī wēi ěr
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
Mǎ Ēn Liè Sī
abbr. for Marx 馬克思|马克思[Ma3 ke4 si1], Engels 恩格斯[En1 ge2 si1], Lenin 列寧|列宁[Lie4 ning2] and Stalin 斯大林[Si1 da4 lin2]
Mǎ sī nèi
Jules Massenet (1842-1912), French composer
Mǎ sī Hé
Maas or Meuse River, Western Europe