海参崴 (Hǎi shēn wǎi) — Vladivostok

Definition

noun
Vladivostok

Examples

  • 海参崴。
    Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Hǎi shēn wǎi lǚ yóu.
    I want to travel to Vladivostok next year.
  • 海参崴。
    Hǎi shēn wǎi Shì é luó sī yuǎn dōng de yí gè zhòng yào chéng shì.
    Vladivostok is an important city in the Russian Far East.
  • 海参崴。
    Tā cóng Hǎi shēn wǎi zuò chuán dào rì běn.
    He took a boat from Vladivostok to Japan.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
氵Written in full as水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
每
每měi海hǎi
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

海 pairs 氵 (water) with 每, which gives the sound. The 氵 side shows it is about water.

Open 海 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 參; 参 is its simplified writing.

For simplified 参, the story belongs to traditional 參, which combines 晶 (stars), 光 (light), and 彡 (rays) to show the Three Stars; one reading takes 光 as a kneeling person looking up.

Open 参 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 崴 →

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