多哥 (Duō gē) — Togo | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Togo

Examples

多哥。
Duō gē Shì xī fēi de yí gè guó jiā.
Togo is a country in West Africa.
多哥。
Wǒ zài dì tú shàng zhǎo dào le Duō gē de wèi zhì.
I found the location of Togo on the map.
多哥。
Duō gē De shǒu dū shì luò měi.
The capital of Togo is Lomé.

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 carry no meaning here; 多哥 spells the foreign name Togo.

Sound-only characters

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

多 originally showed two pieces of meat placed together; the repeated meat shape gives the sense of many.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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