大邱 (Dà qiū) — Daegu (city in South Korea)

Definition

noun

Daegu (city in South Korea)

大邱，。
Wǒ zài Dà qiū zhù le sān nián, fēi cháng xǐ huan nà lǐ de měi shí.
I lived in Daegu for three years and really liked the food there.
大邱，。
Dà qiū Shì hán guó dì sān dà chéng shì, yǐ fǎng zhī yè wén míng.
Daegu is the third-largest city in South Korea, famous for its textile industry.
大邱，。
Qù nián dōng tiān wǒ qù Dà qiū lǚ xíng, cān jiā le dāng dì de bīng xuě jié.
Last winter I traveled to Daegu and took part in the local ice and snow festival.

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 大 and 邱 carry no meaning of their own here; they spell the foreign place name.

Sound-only characters

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.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú

邑邑yìcity; town

Sound part声符shēngfú

丘

Same sound today

邱 pairs 丘, which gives the sound, with 邑, meaning city or town. It was created to avoid writing Confucius's name 丘 directly.