奥斯陆 (Aò sī lù) — Oslo (capital of Norway) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Oslo (capital of Norway)

Examples

奥斯陆。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Aò sī lù lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Oslo next year.
奥斯陆。
Aò sī lù Shì nuó wēi de shǒu dū.
Oslo is the capital of Norway.
奥斯陆。
Tā cóng Aò sī lù zuò fēi jī huí běi jīng.
He flew back to Beijing from Oslo.

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.

奥斯陆 spells the foreign name Oslo; its characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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 陸; 陆 is its simplified writing.

阝坴陸

Meaning part形符xíngfú

阝Written in full as阜fù

Sound part声符shēngfú

坴

坴lù陸lù

Same sound today

The traditional form 陸 uses 阝 (written in full as 阜) for the meaning and 坴 for the sound; the simplified 陆 is a later shorthand.

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