文莱 (Wén lái) — Brunei | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Brunei

文莱。
Wǒ mèi mei jīn nián qù Wén lái liú xué.
My younger sister is going to Brunei this year to study abroad.
文莱。
Wén lái De wú zūn shì hěn duō rén de ǒu xiàng.
Wu Chun from Brunei is many people's idol.
文莱？
Nǐ qù Wén lái lǚ xíng guò ma?
Have you traveled to Brunei?

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.

The characters 文 and 莱 spell the foreign name Brunei and carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

The current form 文 shows a man with head, arms, legs, and chest; the tattoo marks on the chest are no longer drawn.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.