休斯敦 (Xiū sī dūn) — Houston (city in Texas, USA)

Definition

noun

Houston (city in Texas, USA)

休斯敦。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Xiū sī dūn lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Houston next year.
休斯敦NBA。
Xiū sī dūn Yǒu NBA qiú duì huǒ jiàn duì.
Houston has the NBA team the Rockets.
休斯敦。
Tā zài Xiū sī dūn dà xué dú shū.
He studies at the University of Houston.

Single-morpheme word

构词法gòucífǎ

音译yīnyìTransliteration

The characters spell the sound of a foreign word; their individual meanings play no part.

The characters spell the foreign name Houston and carry no meaning of their own.

Sound-only characters

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

休 pairs 人 (man) with 木 (tree), showing a person leaning against a tree to rest.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

The form behind 敦 combines 亯, an ancestral shrine, with 羊, a sheep, showing a cooked goat as a sacrifice.

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