达拉斯 (Dá lā sī) — Dallas (city in Texas, USA) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Dallas (city in Texas, USA)

Examples

达拉斯。
Wǒ xià ge yuè yào qù Dá lā sī chū chāi.
I'm going to Dallas on a business trip next month.
达拉斯。
Dá lā sī Shì měi guó nán bù de yí gè zhòng yào chéng shì.
Dallas is an important city in the southern United States.
达拉斯，。
Tā zài Dá lā sī zhù le wǔ nián, duì nà lǐ hěn shú xi.
He lived in Dallas for five years and knows the place well.

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 spell the foreign name Dallas and 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.

辶大达

Meaning part形符xíngfú

辶Written in full as辵chuò

Sound part声符shēngfú

大

大dà达dá

Same sound today

This form 达 pairs 辶 (written in full as 辵) with 大 as a sound component.

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

手手shǒuhand

Sound part声符shēngfú

立

立lì拉lā

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

拉 pairs 手 (hand) with 立, a component that supplies the sound.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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