巴伐利亚 (Bā fá lì yà) — Bavaria | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Bavaria

巴伐利亚。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Bā fá lì yà lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Bavaria next year.
巴伐利亚。
Bā fá lì yà De pí jiǔ fēi cháng yǒu míng.
Bavarian beer is very famous.
巴伐利亚。
Mù ní hēi zài dé guó Bā fá lì yà.
Munich is in Bavaria, Germany.

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.

巴伐利亚 spells Bavaria; the characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

伐 combines 人 (person) and 戈 (spear), drawing a spear at a person's neck to show cutting or striking.

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.