加利福尼亚理工学院

Traditional form:

加利福尼亞理工學院

Pinyin (reading):

Jiālìfúníyà Lǐgōng Xuéyuàn

Definitions:

• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Characters:

• 加 - to add to, to increase, to augment
• 利 - gains, advantage, profit, merit
• 福 - happiness, good fortune, blessings
• 尼 - Buddhist nun; used in transliterations
• 亚 - Asia; second
• 理 - science, reason, logic; to manage
• 工 - labor, work; laborer, worker
• 学 - learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
• 院 - court, yard, courtyard; school

Traditional characters:

• 加 - to add to, to increase, to augment
• 利 - gains, advantage, profit, merit
• 福 - happiness, good fortune, blessings
• 尼 - Buddhist nun; used in transliterations
• 亞 - Asia; second
• 理 - science, reason, logic; to manage
• 工 - labor, work; laborer, worker
• 學 - learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
• 院 - court, yard, courtyard; school