尼斯 (Ní sī) — Nice (city in France) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Nice (city in France)

Examples

尼斯。
Wǒ míng nián xià tiān xiǎng qù Ní sī lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Nice next summer.
尼斯，。
Ní sī De hǎi tān fēi cháng yǒu míng, měi nián dōu yǒu hěn duō yóu kè.
The beaches of Nice are very famous, with many tourists every year.
尼斯。
Tā cóng Ní sī gěi wǒ dài huí le yì píng dāng dì de hóng jiǔ.
He brought me back a bottle of local red wine from Nice.

Origin

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.

The characters 尼 and 斯 carry no independent meaning here; the word spells Nice.

Sound-only characters

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

The shape draws one person sitting on or leaning against another person, giving the sense of stopping close to someone.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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