额尔齐斯河

Traditional form:

額爾齊斯河

Pinyin (reading):

Eěrqísī Hé

Definitions:

• Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean

Characters:

• 额 - forehead; quota, amount
• 尔 - you; that, those; final particle
• 齐 - even, uniform, of equal length
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
• 河 - river, stream; the Yellow river

Traditional characters:

• 額 - forehead; quota, amount
• 爾 - you; that, those; final particle
• 齊 - even, uniform, of equal length
• 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
• 河 - river, stream; the Yellow river