🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

步行化

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bù xíng huà

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pedestrianize/pəˈdes.tri.ə.naɪz/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"政府计划将市中心商业街步行化。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To adapt a street, area, or thoroughfare for use only by pedestrians, prohibiting motor vehicles.

    "The city council voted to pedestrianize the entire downtown shopping district to reduce pollution."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from 'pedestrian' (ultimately from Latin 'pedester', meaning on foot, from 'pes', foot) combined with the verbal suffix '-ize' (from Greek '-izein'). The term emerged in mid-20th-century urban planning literature as cities increasingly sought to restrict vehicular traffic in favor of walkers.

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🇫🇷French → English

piétonniser

Transliteration: pje.tɔ.ni.ze

"La ville a décidé de piétonniser la rue principale."

🇩🇪German → English

ver Fußgängerzone umwandeln

Transliteration: fɛɐ̯ ˈfuːsˌɡɛŋɐˌtsoːnə ˈʊmˌvandl̩n

Script: zur Fußgängerzone machen

"Die Innenstadt soll komplett verkehrsberuhigt und pedestrianisiert werden."

🇮🇹Italian → English

pedonalizzare

Transliteration: pe.do.na.lidˈdza.re

"Il sindaco vuole pedonalizzare il centro storico."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

peatonalizar

Transliteration: pea.to.na.liˈðar

"Van a peatonalizar varias calles este fin de semana."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

pedestres

Transliteration: pe.dus.tɾi.zaˈɾi

Script: pedestrizar

"A prefeitura planeja pedestrizar a avenida principal."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

पैदल यात्रियों के अनुकूल बनाना

Transliteration: paidal yātriyoṁ ke anukūl banānā

"शहर ने मुख्य बाजार को पैदल यात्रियों के अनुकूल बनाने का फैसला किया है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

步行化

Transliteration: bù xíng huà

"政府计划将市中心商业街步行化。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

보행자 전용으로 만들다

Transliteration: bo-haeng-ja jeon-yong-euro man-deul-da

"시청에서는 도심 거리를 보행자 전용으로 만들기로 결정했다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

歩行者天国にする

Transliteration: hokōsha tengoku ni suru

"週末にはその通りを歩行者天国にします。"

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