列宁 (Liè níng) — Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian revolutio…

Definition

noun

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian revolutionary and political theorist)

列宁。
Liè níng Shì zhù míng de gé mìng jiā.
Lenin is a famous revolutionary.
列宁。
Wǒ dú guò Liè níng de hěn duō zhù zuò.
I have read many of Lenin's works.
列宁。
Liè níng De sī xiǎng duì shì jiè lì shǐ chǎn shēng le shēn yuǎn yǐng xiǎng.
Lenin's thought had a profound impact on world history.

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.

列 and 宁 only spell the foreign name Lenin, so they carry no meanings of their own here.

Sound-only characters

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

列 combines 歹, drawn as skeletal remains, and 刀, a knife, to depict tearing apart.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 寧; 宁 is its simplified writing.

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