黑斯廷斯 (hēi sī tíng sī) — Hastings (place name)

Definition

noun
Hastings (place name)

Examples

  • ,黑斯廷斯。
    Nuò màn dǐ gōng jué zhēng fú yīng gé lán hòu, hēi sī tíng sī chéng wéi le yīng guó lì shǐ shàng de yí gè zhòng yào dì míng.
    After the Duke of Normandy conquered England, Hastings became an important place name in British history.
  • 黑斯廷斯,。
    Jīn nián xià tiān wǒ men jì huà qù hēi sī tíng sī lǚ xíng, cān guān nà lǐ de gǔ chéng bǎo.
    This summer we plan to travel to Hastings and visit the ancient castle there.
  • 黑斯廷斯,。
    Tā zài hēi sī tíng sī zhàn yì zhōng shī qù le xǔ duō shì bīng, zuì hòu bèi pò tóu xiáng.
    He lost many soldiers in the Battle of Hastings and was eventually forced to surrender.

Origin

Characters in this word

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

The shape of 黑 seems to come from drawing a head marked with dots, usually read as facial tattoos.

Open 黑 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 斯 →

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
廴廴yǐn
Sound part声符shēngfú
𡈼
𡈼𡈼廷tíng
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

廷 is built from 廴, a meaning part, and 𡈼, a sound part.

Open 廷 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 斯 →

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