悉尼 (Xī ní) — Sydney | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Sydney

悉尼。
Xī ní Shì ào dà lì yà zuì dà de chéng shì.
Sydney is the largest city in Australia.
悉尼。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Xī ní liú xué.
I want to study abroad in Sydney next year.
悉尼。
Xī ní Gē jù yuàn shì shì jiè zhù míng de jiàn zhù.
The Sydney Opera House is a world-famous building.

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.

悉尼 spells the foreign name Sydney; the characters only represent sounds and carry no independent meaning here.

Sound-only characters

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

釆心悉

悉 has 釆, meaning “to distinguish,” above 心, meaning “heart.”

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.

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