哥伦布 (Gē lún bù) — Columbus (Christopher Columbus, explorer)

Definition

noun

Columbus (Christopher Columbus, explorer)

哥伦布1492。
Gē lún bù Zài 1492 nián fā xiàn le xīn dà lù.
Columbus discovered the New World in 1492.
哥伦布。
Guān yú Gē lún bù de chuán shuō yǒu hěn duō bǎn běn.
There are many versions of the legends about Columbus.
哥伦布。
Lì shǐ xué jiā duì Gē lún bù de háng xíng lù xiàn réng yǒu zhēng yì.
Historians still debate Columbus's sailing route.

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 哥伦布 only spell the foreign name Columbus; here they do not carry their usual meanings.

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.

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.

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

巾巾jīnkerchief

Sound part声符shēngfú

父

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

布 pairs 巾, a kerchief, with 父 as a sound part.

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