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卢旺达 (Lú wàng dá) — Rwanda

Definition

noun
Rwanda

Examples

  • 卢旺达。
    Wǒ qù nián qù le Lú wàng dá lǚ xíng.
    I traveled to Rwanda last year.
  • 卢旺达。
    Lú wàng dá Wèi yú fēi zhōu dōng bù.
    Rwanda is located in East Africa.
  • 卢旺达。
    Lú wàng dá De kā fēi hěn yǒu míng.
    Rwanda's coffee is very famous.

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.

卢lú
旺wàng
达dá

卢旺达 spells the foreign country name; the characters carry no meaning here.

Sound-only characters

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 盧; 卢 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
田田tiánpictogram of an oven
皿皿mǐnvessel
Sound part声符shēngfú
虍
虍hū盧lú
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 盧 began as a picture of an oven, later written 田, with 皿 (a vessel) and 虍 (for sound) added; simplified 卢 is a shorthand.

Open 卢 →

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
日日rìsun
Sound part声符shēngfú
往
往wǎng旺wàng
Same sound today

An earlier form paired 日 (sun) with 往 for the sound; the modern 旺 is understood as 日 plus a right-side part.

Open 旺 →

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
辶Written in full as辵chuò
Sound part声符shēngfú
大
大dà达dá
Same sound today

This form 达 pairs 辶 (written in full as 辵) with 大 as a sound component.

Open 达 →
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