约克 (Yuē kè) — York (city in England) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

York (city in England)

约克。
Wǒ qù nián xià tiān qù le Yuē kè lǚ yóu.
I went to York for a trip last summer.
约克。
Yuē kè Shì yīng guó yí zuò hěn yǒu míng de chéng shì.
York is a very famous city in England.
约克。
Tā zài Yuē kè dà xué dú shū.
He studies at the University of York.

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.

约克 spells the English name York; the characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 約; 约 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

糸糸mìrope

Sound part声符shēngfú

勺

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

The traditional form 約 uses 糸, a rope, for its meaning and 勺 for its sound; the simplified 约 is a later shorthand.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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