noun #50,414

Meanings

  1. 1 short name for Shanghai

Examples

Jīng hù gāotiě zhǐ yào sì gè duō xiǎoshí.
The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway takes just over four hours.
Tā dàngtiān jiù fēi huí le hù.
He flew straight back to Shanghai on the same day.

Tips

usage
is the one-character nickname for Shanghai, used on car plates (A) and in compounds like (Beijing-Shanghai). It comes from an old bamboo fishing-trap name for the area.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water
The three-drop water radical, left-side form of . Shanghai sits on the Yangtze delta, and the name traces back to a riverside fishing device, so water is apt.
phonetic
door; household
Supplies the reading hù directly; standalone is also hù. It adds no household meaning here, only the sound, linking to and .

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