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遗址

yí zhǐ

2-character word Traditional 遺址

What 遗址 means

1. ruins
2. historic relics

The characters in 遗址

• 遗yí(bound form) to leave behind
• 址zhǐ(bound form) site; location

Example sentences

• 这种体育馆下藏着一个重要的遗址。
  Zhèzhǒng tǐyùguǎn xià cáng zhe yī gè zhòngyào de yízhǐ.
  There is an important ruin hidden under this gym.
• 这座体育馆下藏着一个重要的遗址。
  There is an important ruin hidden under this gym.

Words containing 遗址

• 河姆渡遗址Hé mǔ dù yí zhǐHemudu neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo 长江 in Zhejiang, going back to c. 5000 BC
• 半坡遗址Bàn pō yí zhǐBanpo neolithic Yangshao culture archaeological site east of Xi'an 西安
• 且末遗址Qiě mò yí zhǐruins of Cherchen, Qarqan or Chiemo, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous…
• 阖闾城遗址Hé Lǘ chéng yí zhǐruins of capital city of King Helu of Wu, from 6th century BC, at modern Wuxi, Jiangsu

Sounds the same

Read yí zhǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 颐指to order with the chin; to indicate what one wants by facial gesture