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异域

yì yù

2-character word Traditional 異域

What 异域 means

1. foreign country
2. alien land

The characters in 异域

• 异yìdifferent; other; hetero-
• 域yùfield; region; area

Example sentences

• 我还记得很多年前有一次我在温哥华的市中心过马路，一个印第安女人看着我说道：「别笑！」我能从她的脸上看出异域的西方文化真的框住了她的生活。
  Walking through the crosswalk in Downtown Vancouver, BC, many years ago, a Native Indian woman looked at my face and said, "Don't smile!" I could see on her face how foreign Occidental culture really strained her life.

Sounds the same

Read yì yù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 抑郁depressed; despondent; gloomy
• 意欲to intend to; intention; desire
• 逸豫idleness and pleasure
• 熠煜to shine; to glitter