珀斯 (Pò sī) — Perth, capital of Western Australia | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Perthcapital of Western Australia

Examples

珀斯。
Pò sī Shì ào dà lì yà xī hǎi àn zuì dà de chéng shì.
Perth is the largest city on Australia's west coast.
珀斯。
Wǒ xià ge yuè yào qù Pò sī chū chāi.
I'm going to Perth next month for a business trip.
珀斯，。
Pò sī De shā tān fēi cháng piào liang, hěn duō yóu kè dōu xǐ huan qù nà lǐ dù jià.
Perth's beaches are very beautiful, and many tourists like to go there for vacation.

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 carry no meaning of their own here; the word spells the foreign name Perth.

Sound-only characters

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

玉玉yùjade

Sound part声符shēngfú

白

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

珀 combines 玉 (jade) and 白; the 白 side gives the sound.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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