巴洛克 (bā luò kè) — baroque (artistic style of the 17th-18th centuries)

Definition

noun
baroque (artistic style of the 17th-18th centuries)

Examples

  • 巴洛克17
    bā luò kè Yì shù zài 17 shì jì fēi cháng liú xíng.
    Baroque art was very popular in the 17th century.
  • 巴洛克
    Wǒ xǐ huan tīng bā luò kè yīn yuè, yóu qí shì bā hè de zuò pǐn.
    I like listening to Baroque music, especially Bach's works.
  • 巴洛克
    Zhè zuò jiào táng shì diǎn xíng de bā luò kè jiàn zhù.
    This church is a typical Baroque building.

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.

巴洛克 spells baroque; the characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
Luò
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

洛 shows 水 (water) and 各, and 各 supplies the sound.

Open 洛 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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