WordTaiwan frequency #28,403
莫里斯
ㄇㄛˋ ㄌㄧˇ ㄙ
“Maurice or Morris (transliteration of a Western name)”
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莫
ㄇㄛˋ
Do not; do not allow; there is none who; not; cannot; surname Mo; also pronounced mu, meaning dusk or a type of vegetable.
里
ㄌㄧˇ
Inside, interior; a neighborhood or lane; a village; a surname; a traditional Chinese unit of distance (about 500 meters); (Taiwan) an administrative borough.
斯
ㄙ
This; here; thus; such; emphatic particle; phonetic character used in transliterations; archaic pronoun for 'this' or 'here'; archaic adverb for 'all'; archaic conjunction for 'then'.
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Words sharing these characters
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- 公里ㄍㄨㄥ ㄌㄧˇkilometer; unit of length equal to 1,000 meters
- 里長ㄌㄧˇ ㄓㄤˇvillage chief; head of a li (village-level administrative unit) in Taiwan, between neighborhood leader and township/district mayor.
- 俄羅斯ㄜˊ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄙRussia; a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
- 奧斯卡ㄠˋ ㄙ ㄎㄚˇOscar (Academy Award); the annual American film award; (name) Oscar
- 詹姆斯ㄓㄢ ㄇㄨˇ ㄙJames (given name or surname); LeBron James (1984–), American NBA basketball player.
- 里民ㄌㄧˇ ㄇㄧㄣˊresidents of the same village or neighborhood; local community members in a village-level administrative unit.
- 瓦斯ㄨㄚˇ ㄙgas (loanword); flammable gas such as coal gas or natural gas; in military contexts, poison gas.
- 鄰里ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄌㄧˇneighbors; people living nearby; a neighborhood; a local administrative unit in some contexts
- 里程ㄌㄧˇ ㄔㄥˊmileage (distance traveled by a vehicle); distance covered; a stage or milestone in development
- 伊斯蘭教ㄧ ㄙ ㄌㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄠˋIslam; a monotheistic religion founded by the Prophet Muhammad in 7th-century Arabia.
- 斯文ㄙ ㄨㄣˊrefined; cultured; polite; gentle; (archaic) Confucian rites and education; (archaic) Confucian scholar