- 1
Thimphu is the capital city of , the small kingdom in the eastern between India and China. It sits high in a river valley, and it is a small capital by world standards — a few hundred thousand people at most, which is smaller than many cities you would not call big. Two things about it come up often enough that they are worth knowing: it is usually described as the only national capital with no traffic lights (police officers direct cars by hand from a little stand at the main junction), and buildings there are required to be built in traditional Bhutanese style, so even a bank or a petrol station has painted wooden window frames and a roof. Always capitalised, as city names are. English speakers who have not travelled will often not recognise the name at all, so if you use it in conversation you may need to add 'the capital of ' after it.
廷布（不丹首都）。台灣媒體多譯「廷布」，也見「辛布」；不丹＝Bhutan。
組成Borrowed straight from Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan — ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu). It is not built from English pieces, so there is nothing to break apart in English; it is simply the local name carried over.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Thimphuname/tɪmˈpuː/
- 1
The capital city of Bhutan.
- Bhutan, the tiny 'Land of the Thunder Dragon' in South Asia, is a polar contrast to what one might associate with any of its closest neighbors, China, India, Nepal, or Bangladesh. For instance, Thimphu, its most populous city, is the only capital city in the world without a single traffic light. The city’s busiest intersection is still managed by a traffic policeman directing vehicles using flamboyant hand movements accentuated by his white gloves – apparently all the traffic intervention the 114,000 residents need.
- 2
The capital city of Bhutan.
- 3
A district of Bhutan.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。