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Today’s Geography and Vocabulary Lesson

Here is a little bit of vocabulary for you.
Translations and characters come from Mandarin Tools.

Trad.
Simp.
Pinyin
English

běi
north

nán
south



dōng
east

西


west


river


lake

jīng
capital; Beijing (abbrev.)

shān
mountain; hill


广
guǎng
wide; numerous; to spread

and some numbers, just for the heck of it:


one; 1;

èr
two; 2

sān
three; 3


four; 4


five; 5

The center’s address is 11 BeiYiTiao (”North 1st Alley”)
So now that you know the words, North, South, East, and West, you can [...]