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美濟礁

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Chinese

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beautiful; beauty; America aid; ferry; frugal reef; shoal rock
trad. (美濟礁)
simp. (美济礁)
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Etymology

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Named in 1947, as a phono-semantic matching of English Mischief Reef, replacing the previous name 南惡礁南恶礁 published in 1935, which is a calque of English Mischief Reef.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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美濟礁

  1. Mischief Reef (a reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea)