拉巴斯 (Lā bā sī) — La Paz (administrative capital of Bolivia) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

La Paz (administrative capital of Bolivia)

Examples

拉巴斯。
Lā bā sī Shì bō lì wéi yà de shí jì shǒu dū.
La Paz is the de facto capital of Bolivia.
拉巴斯。
Wǒ jì huà míng nián qù Lā bā sī lǚ yóu.
I plan to travel to La Paz next year.
拉巴斯，。
Lā bā sī De hǎi bá fēi cháng gāo, shì shì jiè shàng hǎi bá zuì gāo de shǒu dū zhī yī.
La Paz has a very high altitude and is one of the highest capitals in the world.

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.

拉巴斯 only spells the foreign place name La Paz; the characters do not carry separate meanings.

Sound-only characters

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

手手shǒuhand

Sound part声符shēngfú

立

立lì拉lā

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

拉 pairs 手 (hand) with 立, a component that supplies the sound.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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