圣安地列斯断层

Traditional form:

聖安地列斯斷層

Pinyin (reading):

Shèng'āndelièsī Duàncéng

Definitions:

• San Andreas Fault, California
• also written 聖安德列斯斷層／圣安德列斯断层

Characters:

• 圣 - holy, sacred; sage, saint
• 安 - peaceful, tranquil, quiet
• 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
• 列 - a line; to arrange, to classify
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
• 断 - to sever, to cut off, to interrupt
• 层 - layer, floor, story, stratum

Traditional characters:

• 聖 - holy, sacred; sage, saint
• 安 - peaceful, tranquil, quiet
• 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
• 列 - a line; to arrange, to classify
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
• 斷 - to sever, to cut off, to interrupt
• 層 - layer, floor, story, stratum