那大 (nà dà) — Nada (a town in Hainan province, China)

Definition

noun

Nada (a town in Hainan province, China)

那大。
nà dà Shì hǎi nán de yí gè xiǎo zhèn.
Nada is a small town in Hainan.
那大。
Wǒ qù nián qù guò nà dà.
I went to Nada last year.
那大。
Cóng hǎi kǒu dào nà dà kāi chē yào liǎng gè xiǎo shí.
It takes two hours to drive from Haikou to Nada.

Characters in this word

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

邑邑yìcity

Sound part声符shēngfú

冄

冉rǎn那nà

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

The right part 邑 shows a city, and the left part 冄 (written 冉) gives the sound. The character first named a state and was later used to mean 'that'.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

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