美国地质调查局

Traditional form:

美國地質調查局

Pinyin (reading):

Měiguó Dìzhì Diàochájú

Definitions:

• United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Characters:

• 美 - beautiful, pretty; pleasing
• 国 - country, nation, state; national
• 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
• 质 - essence, nature; material, substance
• 调 - tune, melody, key; to transfer, to exchange
• 查 - to investigate, to examine, to look into
• 局 - bureau, office; circumstance, game, situation

Traditional characters:

• 美 - beautiful, pretty; pleasing
• 國 - country, nation, state; national
• 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
• 質 - essence, nature; material, substance
• 調 - tune, melody, key; to transfer, to exchange
• 查 - to investigate, to examine, to look into
• 局 - bureau, office; circumstance, game, situation