戛纳 (Jiá nà) — Cannes (city in France)

Definition

noun

Cannes (city in France)

戛纳，。
Wǒ qù guò Jiá nà, nà lǐ de hǎi tān hěn měi.
I've been to Cannes; the beaches there are beautiful.
戛纳。
Jiá nà Měi nián dōu jǔ bàn guó jì diàn yǐng jié.
Cannes holds an international film festival every year.
戛纳。
Jiá nà Shì fǎ guó nán bù de yí gè zhù míng lǚ yóu chéng shì.
Cannes is a famous tourist city in the south of France.

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.

戛 and 纳 only spell the French city name’s sounds; neither character carries its usual meaning here.

Sound-only characters

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

𦣻戈戛

戛 is made from 𦣻 (head) and 戈 (halberd).

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 納; 纳 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

糸糸mìsilk, thin thread

Sound part声符shēngfú

内

Same sound today

The traditional form 納 has 糸 (silk, thin thread) and 内, which gives the sound; the simplified 纳 is a shorthand.

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