格洛纳斯

Traditional form:

格洛納斯

Pinyin (reading):

géluònàsī

Definitions:

• GLONASS (Globalnaya Navigatsionaya Satelitnaya Sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System), the Russian equivalent of GPS

Characters:

• 格 - form, pattern, standard
• 洛 - a river in the Shanxi province; a city
• 纳 - to adopt, to accept; to receive, to take
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations

Traditional characters:

• 格 - form, pattern, standard
• 洛 - a river in the Shanxi province; a city
• 納 - to adopt, to accept; to receive, to take
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations