克罗斯比 (kè luó sī bǐ) — Crosby (place name or surname)

Definition

noun
Crosby (place name or surname)

Examples

  • 克罗斯比。
    Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù kè luó sī bǐ lǚ yóu.
    I want to travel to Crosby next year.
  • 克罗斯比。
    kè luó sī bǐ Shì yí gè hěn xiǎo de chéng shì.
    Crosby is a very small city.
  • 克罗斯比？
    Nǐ tīng shuō guò kè luó sī bǐ zhè ge míng zì ma?
    Have you heard of the name Crosby?

Origin

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 克 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 羅; 罗 is its simplified writing.

  • 网网wǎngnet
  • 維維wéibird (tied with string)

The traditional form 羅 combines 网 (net) with 維 (a bird tied with string) to show a net for catching birds; the simplified 罗 is a later abbreviation.

Open 罗 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 斯 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

  • 匕匕bǐ
  • 匕匕bǐ

比 is two 匕 placed side by side. Chu Wan-li treats both as sound parts, while an old reading takes the side-by-side arrangement as putting things next to each other.

Open 比 →

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