迪斯科 (dí si kē) — disco (music/dance style) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

disco (music/dance style)

Examples

迪斯科。
Wǒ zhōu mò xǐ huan qù tīng dí si kē.
I like to go listen to disco on weekends.
迪斯科。
Tā men tiào le yì zhěng yè dí si kē.
They danced disco all night long.
迪斯科。
Zhè jiā dí si kē de yīn yuè fēi cháng rè nao.
The music at this disco club is very lively.

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 迪, 斯, and 科 carry no meaning of their own here; 迪斯科 spells the foreign word disco.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

禾斗科

Meaning part形符xíngfú

斗斗dòumeasuring tool

Sound part声符shēngfú

禾

禾hé科kē

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

科 pairs 禾, which gives the hé sound, with 斗, a measuring tool.

Appears in

Dance & Performance Music

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