普京 (Pǔ jīng) — Putin (Vladimir Putin, Russian president)

Definition

noun
Putin (Vladimir Putin, Russian president)

Examples

  • 普京。
    Pǔ jīng Shì é luó sī de xiàn rèn zǒng tǒng.
    Putin is the current president of Russia.
  • 普京。
    Zuó tiān Pǔ jīng yǔ fǎ guó zǒng tǒng tōng le diàn huà.
    Yesterday Putin spoke by phone with the French president.
  • 普京。
    Xǔ duō guó jiā dōu duì Pǔ jīng de zhèng cè biǎo shì guān zhù.
    Many countries have expressed concern about Putin's policies.

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.

普pǔ
京jīng

普 and 京 carry no meaning of their own here; together they spell the Russian surname Putin.

Sound-only characters

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

  • 並並bìngside by side
  • 日日rìsun

普 is made of 日 (sun) and 並 (side by side).

Open 普 →

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

京 originally drew a tall building.

Open 京 →

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