利物浦 (Lì wù pǔ) — Liverpool | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Liverpool

Examples

利物浦，。
Wǒ cóng lái méi yǒu qù guò Lì wù pǔ, dàn tīng shuō nà lǐ hěn piào liang.
I've never been to Liverpool, but I've heard it's very beautiful.
利物浦。
Lì wù pǔ De zú qiú jù lè bù fēi cháng yǒu míng.
Liverpool's football club is very famous.
利物浦。
Tā dǎ suàn míng nián qù Lì wù pǔ xué xí yīng yǔ.
He plans to go to Liverpool next year to study English.

Origin

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 利, 物, and 浦 only spell the foreign name Liverpool; they carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

禾禾hégrain
刀刀dāoknife

利 combines 禾 (grain) and 刀 (knife), showing a knife used to cut grain.

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

牛勿物

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

勿

勿wù物wù

Same sound today

物 puts 牛 beside 勿: 牛 gives the meaning, and 勿 gives the sound.

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

氵甫浦

Meaning part形符xíngfú

氵Written in full as水shuǐwater; river

Sound part声符shēngfú

甫

甫fǔ浦pǔ

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

浦 combines 氵 (water) with 甫, which provides the sound.

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