尼日利亚 (Ní rì lì yà) — Nigeria | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Nigeria

尼日利亚。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Ní rì lì yà lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Nigeria next year.
尼日利亚。
Ní rì lì yà Shì fēi zhōu rén kǒu zuì duō de guó jiā.
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa.
尼日利亚。
Tā de péng you lái zì Ní rì lì yà.
His friend comes from Nigeria.

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 of their own here; the word spells 'Nigeria'.

Sound-only characters

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.

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

日 originally drew the sun. A mark was added inside to tell it apart from similar square shapes.

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

利 combines 禾 (grain) and 刀 (knife), showing a knife used to cut grain.

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.

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