亚伦 (Yà lún) — Aaron (male given name, biblical or modern usag…

Definition

noun

Aaron (male given name, biblical or modern usage)Yaren (capital of Nauru)

亚伦，。
Tā jiào Yà lún, shì wǒ de měi guó péng you.
His name is Aaron; he is my American friend.
亚伦，。
Yà lún Shì nǎo lǔ de shǒu dū, yě shì yí gè gǎng kǒu chéng shì.
Yaren is the capital of Nauru and also a port city.
亚伦。
Wǒ zài pài duì shàng rèn shi le yí wèi jiào Yà lún de péng you.
I met a friend named Aaron at the party.

Single-morpheme word

构词法gòucífǎ

音译yīnyìTransliteration

The characters spell the sound of a foreign word; their individual meanings play no part.

The characters carry no meaning of their own here; they spell the foreign name Aaron.

Sound-only characters

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 亞; 亚 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 亞 likely shows an overhead view of a construction, perhaps a 亞-shaped tomb. Its later simplified form 亚 is just a shorthand.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 倫; 伦 is its simplified writing.

人侖倫

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

侖

侖lún倫lún

Same sound today

The traditional form 倫 uses 人 to show people and 侖 to give its sound; the simplified 伦 is a later shorthand.