夏威夷 (Xià wēi yí) — Hawaii | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Hawaii

夏威夷。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Xià wēi yí dù jià.
I want to go to Hawaii for a vacation next year.
夏威夷，。
Xià wēi yí De fēng jǐng fēi cháng měi lì, yóu qí shì hǎi tān.
The scenery in Hawaii is very beautiful, especially the beaches.
夏威夷。
Tā gěi wǒ dài le yì hé Xià wēi yí de qiǎo kè lì.
She brought me a box of Hawaiian chocolates.

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 are used only to imitate the foreign name Hawaii; none carries its own meaning here.

Sound-only characters

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

Some scholars connect 夏 to 日 (sun) and 頁 (head; man), reading it as a man under the sun, but this is uncertain.

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

戌女威

威 is made by combining 戌 and 女.

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

The original form showed 矢 (arrow) with 弓 (rope), and meant shooting arrows. Later forms showed 大 (person) with 弓 (bow).

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