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新奥尔良 (Xīn ào ěr liáng) — New Orleans

Definition

noun
New Orleans

Examples

  • 新奥尔良。
    Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Xīn ào ěr liáng lǚ yóu.
    I want to travel to New Orleans next year.
  • 新奥尔良。
    Xīn ào ěr liáng Yǐ jué shì yuè hé měi shí wén míng.
    New Orleans is famous for jazz and cuisine.
  • 新奥尔良？
    Nǐ tīng shuō guò Xīn ào ěr liáng de kuáng huān jié ma?
    Have you heard of the Mardi Gras in New Orleans?

Origin

Characters in this word

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

假借jiǎjièLater borrowed for its sound alone — the picture has nothing to do with today’s meaning.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
斤斤jīn
Sound part声符shēngfú
辛
辛xīn新xīn
Same sound today

The shape originally paired 斤, for chopping wood, with 辛 for sound. It was borrowed for its sound to write 新, so the chopping-wood parts are unrelated to 'new'.

Open 新 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 奥 →

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

假借jiǎjièLater borrowed for its sound alone — the picture has nothing to do with today’s meaning.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 爾; 尔 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 爾, simplified as 尔, originally drew cloth on a loom with crossing threads. It was borrowed for its sound to write “you,” so the picture is unrelated to that meaning.

Open 尔 →

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

良 possibly depicts corridors and a room.

Open 良 →
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