古希腊

古希臘
Gǔxīlà
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 ancient Greece

Examples

HSK 5
Tā yánjiū Gǔxīlà zhéxué duō nián.
He has studied ancient Greek philosophy for many years.
HSK 7-9
Gǔxīlà shì xīfāng wénmíng de zhòngyào yuántóu.
Ancient Greece is an important source of Western civilization.

Tips

culture
古 = ancient, 希腊 = Greece. 希腊 is the phonetic transliteration (Hellas). The term covers roughly the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic periods - Homer through Alexander. Key figures like 苏格拉底 (Socrates), 柏拉图 (Plato), 亚里士多德 (Aristotle) are central in Chinese high-school and philosophy curricula.

Stroke Order

古 gǔ
希 xī
腊 là