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坦噶尼喀

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4-character word

What 坦噶尼喀 means

1. Tanganyika, sovereign state in Africa (1961–1964), later part of Tanzania

The characters in 坦噶尼喀

• 坦tǎnflat; open-hearted; level
• 噶gáphonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds)…
• 尼níBuddhist nun; (often used in phonetic spellings)
• 喀kā(onomatopoeia) sound of coughing or vomiting

Example sentences

• 调查人员的结论基于对取自东非大裂谷坦噶尼喀湖底部的一块距今 6 万年的沉积物岩芯的分析。坦噶尼喀湖位于东非大裂谷，与蒲隆地、刚果民主共和国、坦尚尼亚和尚比亚接壤，是世界第二深的淡水湖。
  Investigators base their conclusion on an analysis of a 60,000-year-old sediment core extracted from the bottom Lake Tanganyika in the East African Rift Valley, which borders Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. The lake is the world's second deepest fresh water lake.

Words starting with 坦噶尼喀

• 坦噶尼喀湖Tǎn gá ní kā HúLake Tanganyika in East Africa