飞往 (fēi wǎng) — to fly to (a destination) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

verb

to fly to (a destination)

Examples

飞往。
Xià ge yuè wǒ yào fēi wǎng shàng hǎi chū chāi.
Next month I will fly to Shanghai on a business trip.
飞往，。
Zhè jià fēi jī fēi wǎng niǔ yuē, ér bú shì luò shān jī.
This plane flies to New York, not Los Angeles.
飞往。
Měi nián xià tiān yǒu hěn duō yóu kè fēi wǎng hǎi nán dù jià.
Every summer many tourists fly to Hainan for a vacation.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

补充bǔchōngVerb + complement

An action followed by its result or direction.

飞 means fly; 往 points to a destination, so the whole means fly toward.

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 飛; 飞 is its simplified writing.

For 飞, the traditional form 飛 pictures a bird flying upwards.

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

止止zhǐfoot

Sound part声符shēngfú

王

王wáng往wǎng

Same sound today

The form that became 往 paired 止, a foot, with 王 for the sound; a stepping part was later added, and the right side changed.

Appears in

Air Travel Directions

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