曼彻斯特 (Màn chè sī tè) — Manchester (city in England)

Definition

noun

Manchester (city in England)

曼彻斯特。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Màn chè sī tè lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Manchester next year.
曼彻斯特。
Màn chè sī tè Shì yīng guó de yí gè zhòng yào chéng shì.
Manchester is an important city in the UK.
曼彻斯特。
Tā zài Màn chè sī tè dà xué dú shū.
He studies at the University of Manchester.

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 only spell the English city name and carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 徹; 彻 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 徹 comes from a picture of 又 (hand) taking a 鬲 (pot) away after eating; 彻 is the simplified form of 徹.

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.

牛寺特

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

寺

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The shape combines 牛 (ox) with 寺, which gives the pronunciation; it originally meant a large bull.

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