斯洛文尼亚 (Sī luò wén ní yà) — Slovenia

Definition

noun

Slovenia

斯洛文尼亚。
Wǒ qù nián qù le Sī luò wén ní yà lǚ yóu.
I went to Slovenia for a trip last year.
斯洛文尼亚。
Sī luò wén ní yà De shǒu dū shì lú bù ěr yǎ nà.
The capital of Slovenia is Ljubljana.
斯洛文尼亚，。
Tā lái zì Sī luò wén ní yà, shì gè rè qíng de dǎo yóu.
He is from Slovenia and is a passionate tour guide.

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 斯洛文尼亚 only spell the foreign name Slovenia and carry no separate meaning here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

Sound part声符shēngfú

各

各gè洛Luò

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

洛 shows 水 (water) and 各, and 各 supplies the sound.

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.

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

The shape draws one person sitting on or leaning against another person, giving the sense of stopping close to someone.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 亞; 亚 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 亞 likely shows an overhead view of a construction, perhaps a 亞-shaped tomb. Its later simplified form 亚 is just a shorthand.