伊普斯威奇 (yī pǔ sī wēi jī) — Ipswich (place name, a town in Suffolk, England or a city in Queensland, Australia)

Definition

noun
Ipswich (place name, a town in Suffolk, England or a city in Queensland, Australia)

Examples

  • 伊普斯威奇。
    Wǒ qù nián qù le yī pǔ sī wēi jī lǚ xíng.
    I traveled to Ipswich last year.
  • 伊普斯威奇。
    yī pǔ sī wēi jī Shì yīng guó dōng bù de yí gè xiǎo zhèn.
    Ipswich is a small town in eastern England.
  • 伊普斯威奇。
    Tā zài yī pǔ sī wēi jī dà xué dú le yì nián shū.
    He studied at the University of Ipswich for a year.

Origin

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.

伊yī
普pǔ
斯sī
威wēi
奇qí

The characters carry no meaning of their own here; they spell Ipswich.

Sound-only characters

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
亻Written in full as人rénperson
Sound part声符shēngfú
尹
尹yǐn伊yī
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The left part 亻 shows a person. The right part 尹 is used for the sound.

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

  • 並並bìngside by side
  • 日日rìsun

普 is made of 日 (sun) and 並 (side by side).

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 斯 →

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

威 is made by combining 戌 and 女.

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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
大大dàbig; great
Sound part声符shēngfú
可
可kě奇
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

奇 pairs 大 (big; great) with 可, a sound part.

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