大西洋城 (dà xī yáng chéng) — Atlantic City | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Atlantic City

Examples

大西洋城。
Wǒ jīn nián xià tiān xiǎng qù dà xī yáng chéng dù jià.
I want to go to Atlantic City for vacation this summer.
大西洋城，。
dà xī yáng chéng De dǔ chǎng hěn yǒu míng, dàn wǒ bù xǐ huan dǔ bó.
Atlantic City's casinos are famous, but I don't like gambling.
大西洋城。
Cóng niǔ yuē kāi chē dào dà xī yáng chéng dà yuē liǎng gè xiǎo shí.
It takes about two hours to drive from New York to Atlantic City.

Origin

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

氵羊洋

Meaning part形符xíngfú

氵Written in full as水shuǐwater

Sound part声符shēngfú

羊

羊yáng洋yáng

Same sound today

洋 pairs 氵, the water part, with 羊 to give its sound.

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

土成城

Meaning part形符xíngfú

土土tǔsoil

Sound part声符shēngfú

成

成chéng城chéng

Same sound today

城 pairs 土 (soil) with 成 as a sound part, because city walls were originally made of stamped earth.

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