国立西南联合大学

Traditional form:

國立西南聯合大學

Pinyin (reading):

Guólì Xīnán Liánhé Dàxué

Definitions:

• National Southwest Combined University (Peking, Tsinghua and Nankai Universities in exile in Kunming 1937-1945)

Characters:

• 国 - country, nation, state; national
• 立 - to stand; to establish, to set up
• 西 - west, western, westward
• 南 - south; southern; southward
• 联 - ally, associate; to connect, to join
• 合 - to combine, to join, to unite; to gather
• 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
• 学 - learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology

Traditional characters:

• 國 - country, nation, state; national
• 立 - to stand; to establish, to set up
• 西 - west, western, westward
• 南 - south; southern; southward
• 聯 - ally, associate; to connect, to join
• 合 - to combine, to join, to unite; to gather
• 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
• 學 - learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology