多伦多 (Duō lún duō) — Toronto | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Toronto

多伦多。
Wǒ jì huà míng nián qù Duō lún duō lǚ yóu.
I plan to travel to Toronto next year.
多伦多。
Duō lún duō Shì jiā ná dà zuì dà de chéng shì.
Toronto is the largest city in Canada.
多伦多。
Tā céng zài Duō lún duō liú xué liǎng nián.
She studied abroad in Toronto for two years.

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.

多, 伦, and 多 carry no meaning on their own here; they spell the foreign name Toronto.

Sound-only characters

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

多 originally showed two pieces of meat placed together; the repeated meat shape gives the sense of many.

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 倫; 伦 is its simplified writing.

人侖倫

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

侖

侖lún倫lún

Same sound today

The traditional form 倫 uses 人 to show people and 侖 to give its sound; the simplified 伦 is a later shorthand.

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

多 originally showed two pieces of meat placed together; the repeated meat shape gives the sense of many.

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