所多玛与蛾摩拉

Traditional form:

所多瑪與蛾摩拉

Pinyin (reading):

Suǒduōmǎyǔ Emólā

Definitions:

• Sodom and Gomorrah

Characters:

• 所 - place, location; "that which", a particle introducing a passive clause
• 多 - much, many, multi-; more than, over
• 玛 - agate, cornelian
• 与 - and; with; to; for; to give, to grant
• 蛾 - moth
• 摩 - to scour, to rub, to grind; friction
• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)

Traditional characters:

• 所 - place, location; "that which", a particle introducing a passive clause
• 多 - much, many, multi-; more than, over
• 瑪 - agate, cornelian
• 與 - and; with; to; for; to give, to grant
• 蛾 - moth
• 摩 - to scour, to rub, to grind; friction
• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)