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开曼 (kāi màn) — Cayman Islands

Definition

noun
Cayman Islands

Examples

  • 开曼。
    Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù kāi màn lǚ yóu.
    I want to travel to the Cayman Islands next year.
  • 开曼。
    kāi màn Shì yí gè zhù míng de jīn róng zhōng xīn.
    The Cayman Islands is a famous financial center.
  • 开曼。
    Tā zài kāi màn kāi le yì jiā fēn gōng sī.
    He opened a branch company in the Cayman Islands.

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.

开kāi
曼màn

The characters only spell the foreign name Cayman; they do not carry their usual meanings here.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 開; 开 is its simplified writing.

  • 門門méndoor
  • 一一yīlatch and/or wooden pole that shuts a door
  • 廾廾gǒnga pair of hands

The traditional form 開 shows 廾, a pair of hands, and 一, a latch or pole, inside 門, a door: hands opening a latched door. The simplified 开 is a shorthand form, so its parts are not the original pieces.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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