披萨 (pī sà) — pizza | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

pizza

Measure word · 个

Examples

披萨。
Zuó tiān wǒ hé péng you chī le yí dùn pī sà.
Yesterday I ate a pizza with my friend.
披萨。
Zhè jiā diàn de pī sà wèi dào hěn hǎo.
This restaurant's pizza tastes great.
披萨，。
Yào shi zài jiā zuò pī sà, nǐ xū yào miàn fěn hé nǎi lào.
If you make pizza at home, you need flour and cheese.

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 披萨 only spell the foreign sound for pizza and do not carry their own meanings 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.

扌皮披

Meaning part形符xíngfú

扌Written in full as手shǒuhand

Sound part声符shēngfú

皮

皮pí披pī

Same sound today

披 pairs 扌 (hand) with 皮, which gives the sound.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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