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公寓 gōngyù

公寓 gōngyù Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 3 English Translations of the word 公寓 gōngyù .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
gōngyù | gong1 yu4
English translation
apartment building
block of flats
CL: tào [tào]

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Traditional form

公寓 gōngyù

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí
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Etymology of 公寓 gōngyù

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gōng

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Originally a pictograph of a vessel for holding liquid. The original meaning is now written as wèng , with the (pottery) component added at the bottom. The current meaning "public" is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

八厶

Number of Strokes

4

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. gài represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Phonetic compound

Semantic compound

gài

Positional decomposition

宀禺

Number of Strokes

12

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Example sentences using 公寓 gōngyù

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有些 yǒu xiē rén 房屋 fáng wū , dàn 大多数 dà duō shù de rén 还是 háishi 选择 xuǎnzé 公寓 gōngyù .

Some people rent houses, but most renters live in apartments.

谈到 tán dào xiǎo xiē de 公寓 gōngyù , yǐn 起来 qǐlai xiàng shì yāo shòu qióng le .

Talk of a smaller flat sounded like poverty.

yòng zài 设法 shè fǎ 这套公寓 gōngyù le , 负担 fùdān 不起.

It's no use trying to keep up the flat; I can't do it.

dìng 主意 zhǔyi zài 旅馆 lǚ guǎn jiǔ zhù , ér yāo 尽快 jǐnkuài tào 公寓 gōngyù .

He decided he would lose no time living in hotels but would rent a flat.

他们 tā men zài Dōng 86 jiē wéi zhǎo le tào 公寓 gōngyù .

They found an apartment for her on East 86 th Street.

公寓 gōngyù Decomposition

See the 5 Chinese characters that make up 公寓 gōngyù and their own compounds.

公寓 gōngyù Compounds

See all 46 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 公寓 gōngyù in their composition.

  • gōng
    • Sōng
    • wēng
      • wēng , wěng , wěng , wěng , wěng , wěng , wěng , wēng , , wēng , , , , ,
    • gǔn
    • sòng , sòng , wèng , gōng , sōng , zhōng , zhōng , qiān , , , , , , , , , sòng , sòng
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