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哥伦比亚人 (gē lún bǐ yà rén) — Colombian (person)

Definition

noun
Colombian (person)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 。
    Tā shì yí wèi lái zì bō gē dà de gē lún bǐ yà rén.
    He is a Colombian from Bogotá.
  • 哥伦比亚人，。
    Wǒ zài dà xué lǐ rèn shi le jǐ gè gē lún bǐ yà rén, tā men dōu hěn rè qíng.
    I met several Colombians in college; they are all very warm.
  • 哥伦比亚人。
    Zhè ge tuán duì lǐ yǒu liǎng míng gē lún bǐ yà rén hé yì míng bā xī rén.
    There are two Colombians and one Brazilian in this team.

Origin

Derived word
构词法gòucífǎ
后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

哥伦比亚Colombia
哥gē伦lún比bǐ亚yà
人rénperson

哥伦比亚 spells Colombia, and 人 marks a person from there, giving Colombian person.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
人人rén
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.

Open 伦 →

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

  • 匕匕bǐ
  • 匕匕bǐ

比 is two 匕 placed side by side. Chu Wan-li treats both as sound parts, while an old reading takes the side-by-side arrangement as putting things next to each other.

Open 比 →

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.

Open 亚 →

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

The shape of 人 shows a side view of a standing person, with an arm and a leg.

Open 人 →
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