城
Meanings
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- 1.city walls
- 2.city
- 3.town
- 4.CL:座[zuò],道[dào],个[gè]
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Wiktionary
- 1.city wall
- 2.city, town, especially (historical) walled city
- 3.walled district within a city
- 4.large commercial venue
- 5.to construct city walls
- 6.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *djeŋ): semantic 土 (“soil”) + phonetic 成 (OC *djeŋ), since city walls were originally made of stamped earth. Cognate with 成 (OC *djeŋ, “to complete; city walls”), 盛 (OC *djeŋ, “to hold with a receptacle”), 盛 (OC *djeŋs, “abundant; flourishing”), as 城 (OC *djeŋ, “city wall”) was made of filled-in or stamped earth (Schuessler, 2007). See 成 for more. Its original meaning was "city walls" and was originally written as 成; later, it started to indicate the city (i.e., the part of territory within the city walls) due to metonymy since a single part of a city indicates the city itself.
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Components
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Example sentences
我出城度假了。
I was out of town on vacation.
我載她去城裡了。
I gave her a lift to town.
這是城裡最糟糕的旅館。
This is the worst hotel in town.
城裡有一家古老的電影院。
There's an old movie theater in town.
这座城犹太教堂不怎么多。
There aren't that many synagogues in this city.
这座城的犹太教堂不是很多。
There aren't that many synagogues in this city.
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Derived terms
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