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Meaning of T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“In the ring-shaped peripheral areas from the Dzungari Basin to the great desert of T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan, hundreds of thousands of people have been reclaiming wastelands in the depth of the Gobi and desert which cover several thousand square li.”

“The Ho-t'ien Special District in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, lying north of the K'un-lun Mountain and south of the T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Desert, suffered regularly before the liberation from the menace of drought and sand storm.”

“The great Takla Makan Desert of Central Asia is one of the largest sandy deserts in the world. It occupies the central part of the Tarim Basin in the Uigur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, northwestern China, where it is known as Taklimakan Shamo, or T’a-k’o-la-ma-kan Sha-mo.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

T'ai-an T'ai-chou T'ai-chung T'ai-erh-chuang T'ai-lu-ko T'ai-nan