威尼斯 (Wēi ní sī) — Venice | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Venice

Examples

威尼斯。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Wēi ní sī lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Venice next year.
威尼斯。
Wēi ní sī De shuǐ chéng fēng guāng fēi cháng yǒu míng.
Venice's water city scenery is very famous.
威尼斯。
Tā zài Wēi ní sī pāi le hěn duō zhào piàn.
He took many photos in Venice.

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 威尼斯 spell the foreign name Venice; they do not carry their own meanings here.

Sound-only characters

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

戌女威

戌戌xū
女女nǚ

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 shape draws one person sitting on or leaning against another person, giving the sense of stopping close to someone.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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