太行 (tài háng) — Taihang (mountain range in northern China) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Taihang (mountain range in northern China)

Examples

太行。
tài háng Shān mài héng kuà hé běi hé shān xī liǎng shěng.
The Taihang Mountains stretch across Hebei and Shanxi provinces.
太行。
Wǒ men jì huà míng nián qù tài háng shān tú bù lǚ xíng.
We plan to go hiking in the Taihang Mountains next year.
太行。
tài háng Dì qū de zì rán fēng guāng fēi cháng zhuàng lì.
The natural scenery of the Taihang region is very magnificent.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

The name joins 太 ‘great’ with 行 ‘row’ to designate the Taihang range.

Characters in this word

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

太 is a modified form of 大, with an extra dot added to show 'too big'.

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

彳亍行

彳彳chì
亍亍chù

The shape of 行 originally showed a street intersection, even on both sides. Later it became uneven, with 彳 on the left and 亍 on the right.

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