巴库 (bā kù) — Baku, capital of Azerbaijan | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Bakucapital of Azerbaijan

Examples

巴库。
Míng nián wǒ dǎ suàn qù bā kù lǚ xíng.
I plan to travel to Baku next year.
巴库，。
bā kù Shì ā sài bài jiāng de shǒu dū, wèi yú lǐ hǎi xī àn.
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan, located on the western coast of the Caspian Sea.
巴库。
Wǒ zài bā kù rèn shi le yí wèi dāng dì péng you.
I met a local friend in Baku.

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.

巴库 spells Baku; the characters carry no meaning here.

Sound-only characters

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 庫; 库 is its simplified writing.

广車庫

Meaning part形符xíngfú

广广guǎngbuilding

Sound part声符shēngfú

車

車jū庫kù

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 庫 pairs 广 (building) with 車 (sound); the building part points to a storehouse. The simplified 库 is a later shorthand.

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