挪威 (Nuó wēi) — Norway | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Norway

挪威。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Nuó wēi lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Norway next year.
挪威。
Nuó wēi Shì yí gè hěn měi lì de běi ōu guó jiā.
Norway is a very beautiful Nordic country.
挪威。
Tā gěi jiā rén mǎi le Nuó wēi de qiǎo kè lì.
He bought Norwegian chocolate for his family.

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.

挪威 spells the foreign name for Norway, and 挪 and 威 have no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

扌那挪

Meaning part形符xíngfú

扌Written in full as手shǒu

Sound part声符shēngfú

那

那nà挪nuó

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

挪 pairs 扌 (hand) with 那, which gives its sound.

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

戌女威

威 is made by combining 戌 and 女.