圣索非亚大教堂
Traditional form:
聖索非亞大教堂
Pinyin (reading):
Shèngsuǒfēiyà Dàjiàotáng
Definitions:
- Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istanbul)
Characters:
- 圣 - holy, sacred; sage, saint
- 索 - cable, rope; rules, laws; to demand, to exact; to search, to inquire
- 非 - not, negative, non-; to oppose
- 亚 - Asia; second
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 教 - school, education
- 堂 - hall, large room; government office; cousins
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