神户 (Shén hù) — Kobe (Japanese city) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Kobe (Japanese city)

神户。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Shén hù lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Kobe next year.
神户。
Tīng shuō Shén hù de niú ròu hěn yǒu míng.
I heard Kobe's beef is very famous.
神户。
Shén hù Shì rì běn yí gè zhòng yào de gǎng kǒu chéng shì.
Kobe is an important port city in Japan.

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

示示shìgod; deity

Sound part声符shēngfú

申

Same sound today

The older form 申 drew lightning, which the ancients regarded as divine; 神 adds 示 (god/deity) to mark that meaning.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 戶; 户 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 戶 is a picture of half of a gate. The simplified 户 is a later shorthand, so its shape should not be read as the original parts.

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