巴黎 (Bā lí) — Paris (capital of France) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Paris (capital of France)

Examples

巴黎。
Míng nián wǒ dǎ suàn qù Bā lí lǚ xíng.
I plan to travel to Paris next year.
巴黎，。
Bā lí Shì fǎ guó de shǒu dū, fēi cháng làng màn.
Paris is the capital of France, very romantic.
巴黎。
Tā gěi wǒ jì le yì zhāng Bā lí de míng xìn piàn.
She sent me a postcard of Paris.

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 only spell the French name Paris and carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

黍黍shǔmillet

Sound part声符shēngfú

利

利lì黎lí

Same sound today

黎 pairs 黍, meaning millet, with 利 as its sound part; here the 黍 part is shortened.

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