自贡

自貢

Zìgòng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Zigong, city in southern Sichuan, known for its ancient salt wells, dinosaur fossils and lantern festival

Characters

from Ziliujing, one of the two salt wells

from Gongjing, the other salt well

Examples

HSK 5

自贡产盐已经有两千多年的历史了。

Zìgòng chǎn yán yǐjīng yǒu liǎngqiān duō nián de lìshǐ le.

Zigong has a history of making salt that goes back more than two thousand years.

HSK 7-9

自贡的恐龙博物馆很有名。

Zìgòng de kǒnglóng bówùguǎn hěn yǒumíng.

Zigong's dinosaur museum is famous.

Tips

history

The name joins two famous salt wells, 自流井 and 贡井, whose towns were merged into one city in 1939. The 燊海井 there, finished in 1835, was the first well in the world drilled deeper than 1,000 metres, and 自贡 is still called the "salt capital".

Stroke Order

自 zì

贡 gòng