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布达佩斯 (Bù dá pèi sī) — Budapest, capital of Hungary

Definition

noun
Budapestcapital of Hungary

Examples

  • 布达佩斯。
    Wǒ jì huà míng nián qù Bù dá pèi sī lǚ yóu.
    I plan to travel to Budapest next year.
  • 布达佩斯。
    Duō nǎo hé jiāng Bù dá pèi sī fēn wéi bù dá hé pèi sī liǎng bù fen.
    The Danube divides Budapest into two parts: Buda and Pest.
  • 布达佩斯、。
    Bù dá pèi sī Shì xiōng yá lì de zhèng zhì, jīng jì hé wén huà zhōng xīn.
    Budapest is the political, economic, and cultural center of Hungary.

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.

布bù
达dá
佩pèi
斯sī

The characters 布达佩斯 spell a foreign place name and carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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
巾巾jīnkerchief
Sound part声符shēngfú
父
父fù布bù
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

布 pairs 巾, a kerchief, with 父 as a sound part.

Open 布 →

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
辶Written in full as辵chuò
Sound part声符shēngfú
大
大dà达dá
Same sound today

This form 达 pairs 辶 (written in full as 辵) with 大 as a sound component.

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

佩 is built from 人 (person) and 巾 (piece of cloth), plus 凡, whose role is unclear. Its original meaning was a large sash.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 斯 →
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