东突厥斯坦
Traditional form:
東突厥斯坦
Pinyin (reading):
Dōngtūjuésītǎn
Definitions:
- East Turkestan
- historical term for Xinjiang
Characters:
- 东 - east, eastern, eastward
- 突 - sudden, abrupt, unexpected
- 厥 - personal pronoun; he, she, it
- 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
- 坦 - flat, level, smooth; candid, open
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