咸兴 (xián xīng) — Hamhung (city in North Korea)

Definition

noun

Hamhung (city in North Korea)

咸兴。
xián xīng Shì cháo xiǎn de yí gè chéng shì.
Hamhung is a city in North Korea.
咸兴。
Wǒ tīng shuō xián xīng de lěng miàn hěn yǒu míng.
I heard that Hamhung's cold noodles are very famous.
咸兴。
Tā cóng xián xīng bān dào píng rǎng le.
He moved from Hamhung to Pyongyang.

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.

咸兴 spells the name Hamhung; the characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 鹹; 咸 is its simplified writing.

鹵咸鹹

Meaning part形符xíngfú

鹵鹵lǔsalt

Sound part声符shēngfú

咸

Same sound today

The traditional form 鹹 pairs 鹵 (salt) with 咸 as a sound part; the simplified 咸 is a shorthand, and its parts are not the historical components.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 興; 兴 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 興 shows four hands lifting an object; the simplified 兴 is not the form described.