吉萨 (jí sà) — Giza (city in Egypt) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Giza (city in Egypt)

吉萨。
jí sà Shì āi jí de yí gè chéng shì.
Giza is a city in Egypt.
吉萨。
jí sà Jīn zì tǎ shì shì jiè zhù míng de jǐng diǎn.
The Giza pyramids are world-famous attractions.
吉萨。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù jí sà lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Giza next year.

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.

吉 and 萨 only spell the foreign place name Giza; they carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

In the earliest forms, 吉 was drawn with a mouth-like lower part and an upper part that later became today's upper shape.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.