好莱坞 (Hǎo lái wù) — Hollywood | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Hollywood

好莱坞。
Hěn duō míng xīng zhù zài Hǎo lái wù.
Many celebrities live in Hollywood.
好莱坞。
Hǎo lái wù De diàn yǐng zài quán qiú dōu hěn shòu huān yíng.
Hollywood movies are very popular worldwide.
好莱坞。
Tā mèng xiǎng yǒu yì tiān néng qù Hǎo lái wù fā zhǎn.
He dreams of going to Hollywood to develop his career one day.

Characters in this word

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

女子好

好 joins 女 (woman) and 子 (child), understood as a woman with a child, linked to goodness or affection.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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 塢; 坞 is its simplified writing.

土烏塢

Meaning part形符xíngfú

土土tǔsoil

Sound part声符shēngfú

烏

烏wū塢wù

Same sound today

The traditional form 塢 pairs 土 (soil) with 烏 as a sound component; the simplified 坞 is a shorthand, and its right side is not the historical part.

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