长崎 (Cháng qí) — Nagasaki (city in Japan)

Definition

noun

Nagasaki (city in Japan)

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Qù nián xià tiān wǒ qù le yí cì Cháng qí.
I went to Nagasaki once last summer.
长崎。
Cháng qí Shì rì běn jiǔ zhōu dǎo xī àn de yí gè gǎng kǒu chéng shì.
Nagasaki is a port city on the west coast of Kyushu Island, Japan.
，长崎。
Èr zhàn qī jiān, Cháng qí zāo shòu le yuán zǐ dàn hōng zhà.
During World War II, Nagasaki suffered an atomic bomb attack.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 長; 长 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 長 pictures an old man with long hair. The simplified 长 is a later shorthand, so its strokes do not show that original picture.

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

山奇崎

Meaning part形符xíngfú

山山shānmountain

Sound part声符shēngfú

奇

Same sound today

崎 has a mountain part 山 on the left and 奇 on the right, which gives the sound qí.

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