南茜 (nán qiàn) — Nancy (female name) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Nancy (female name)

Examples

南茜，。
nán qiàn Shì wǒ de dà xué tóng xué, lái zì měi guó.
Nancy is my college classmate from the United States.
南茜。
Zuó tiān wǒ péi nán qiàn qù guàng le gù gōng.
Yesterday I accompanied Nancy to visit the Forbidden City.
南茜。
nán qiàn De zhōng wén shuō dé fēi cháng liú lì.
Nancy speaks Chinese very fluently.

Origin

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 南茜 spell the foreign name Nancy and do not carry their usual meanings here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú

艸艸cǎograss; plant

Sound part声符shēngfú

西

西xī茜⁰qiàn

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The top 艸 shows the character is about a plant; the bottom 西 gives the sound.

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