Chinese Vocabulary
首都
capital (city)
shǒudū
Usage
HSK 3. 首 (head) + 都 (metropolis). 美国的首都是华盛顿 = the capital of America is Washington.
Hear it in real Fluentide episodes
首都 appears in 4 podcast episodes at natural native speed, with full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
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