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亞太
aa3 taai3
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The Asia Pacific region | Short for 亞洲太平洋 | Essentially East Asia (NE Asia and SE Asia), Oceania (Australasia) and, depending on who you ask, South Asia (the Indian Subcontinent) and Central Asia. West Asia (Middle East) is not included.  Level: 2 Google Frequency: 2,680,000 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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This word has been viewed 1823 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by tym on 15th Oct 2004 17:06 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03 |
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Characters in this word:亞 aa3 - second; Asia太 taai3 - highest; great-grand; excessively 5 compounds containing this word:亞太國家 - Asian-Pacific country; Asian-Pacific nation亞太經合組織 - APEC (organization) 亞太工商研究所 - Asia-Pacific Institute of Business 亞太地區 - Asia-Pacific region 帛琉亞太航空公司 - Palau Asia Pacific Air, Inc | ||
One Cantonese Homophone / Homophone Variant for this word:
阿太
aa3 taai3 = great grandmother |
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