木浦 (mù pǔ) — Mokpo (city in South Korea) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Mokpo (city in South Korea)

Examples

木浦。
mù pǔ Shì hán guó de yí gè gǎng kǒu chéng shì.
Mokpo is a port city in South Korea.
木浦。
Wǒ qù nián shǔ jià qù le mù pǔ lǚ xíng.
I traveled to Mokpo last summer vacation.
木浦。
Cóng shǒu ěr zuò huǒ chē dào mù pǔ dà yuē xū yào sì gè xiǎo shí.
It takes about four hours by train from Seoul to Mokpo.

Origin

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

木 is drawn as a tree, with branches above and roots below.

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

氵甫浦

Meaning part形符xíngfú

氵Written in full as水shuǐwater; river

Sound part声符shēngfú

甫

甫fǔ浦pǔ

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

浦 combines 氵 (water) with 甫, which provides the sound.

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