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芝加哥 (Zhī jiā gē) — Chicago

Definition

noun
Chicago

Examples

  • 芝加哥，。
    Wǒ qù nián qù le Zhī jiā gē lǚ xíng, nà lǐ de jiàn zhù fēi cháng piào liang.
    I went to Chicago last year and the architecture there is very beautiful.
  • 芝加哥，。
    Zhī jiā gē Shì měi guó de dì sān dà chéng shì, wèi yú yī lì nuò yī zhōu.
    Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, located in Illinois.
  • 芝加哥，。
    Wǒ hěn xiǎng qù Zhī jiā gē kàn yí cì hú, tīng shuō mì xiē gēn hú hěn měi.
    I really want to go to Chicago and see the lake once — I hear Lake Michigan is very beautiful.

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
艹Written in full as艸cǎograss
Sound part声符shēngfú
之
之zhī芝⁰zhī
Same sound today

芝 is built from 艹, a grass form, plus 之 as a sound part; it names a type of plant.

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

加 pairs 力 and 口. In one explanation 力 is strength and 口 is the mouth, meaning exaggeration; in another 力 is plowing effort and 口 is breath or exclamation, meaning extra effort.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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