double-u

短语

n. 字母 W [亦作 double-U, double-you]

发音

US /ˈdʌb.(ə)l.juː/

词形变化

double-ues 复数 double-ues double-u's double-u's 复数

别名

Double-u dub double U double you

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The name of the Latin script letter W/w.

  2. 2.

    Alternative name of the Latin-script digraph ⟨UU⟩.

  3. 3.

    The WC; the toilet.

    委婉

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

w

上位词 1

letter

整体词 2

Latin alphabet Roman alphabet

词源

Inherited from Middle English doble W, in reference to the letter's origins as a ligature of two Us or Vs (V originally being a typographical variant of U). The failure of the sequence /bljuː/ to simplify in this word's bisyllabic pronunciation (as in blue) is doubtlessly due to the letter U's name. For colloquial pronunciations without /l/, compare Straya.

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