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耶路撒冷 (Yē lù sā lěng) — Jerusalem

Definition

noun
Jerusalem

Examples

  • 耶路撒冷。
    Míng nián de jià qī wǒ dǎ suàn qù Yē lù sā lěng lǚ xíng.
    I plan to travel to Jerusalem during next year's vacation.
  • 耶路撒冷。
    Yē lù sā lěng Shì shì jiè shàng zuì gǔ lǎo de chéng shì zhī yī.
    Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world.
  • 耶路撒冷。
    Tā duì Yē lù sā lěng de lì shǐ fēi cháng gǎn xìng qù.
    He is very interested in the history of Jerusalem.

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.

耶yē
路lù
撒sā
冷lěng

The characters are used only to spell the foreign name Jerusalem; none carries its own meaning in this word.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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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
足足zú
Sound part声符shēngfú
各
各gè路lù
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

路 combines 足, a foot, with 各, which supplies the sound.

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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
扌Written in full as手shǒuhand
Sound part声符shēngfú
散
散sàn撒sǎ
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

撒 combines 扌 (hand) with 散, which gives the sound; the hand part shows scattering with the hand.

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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
冫Written in full as仌bīngice
Sound part声符shēngfú
令
令lìng冷lěng
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

冷 uses 冫, the ice form, with 令 as a sound part, to mean cold as ice.

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Appears in
City & Urban

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