温莎 (wēn shā) — Windsor (place name or surname)

Definition

noun
Windsor (place name or surname)

Examples

  • 温莎。
    Tā lái zì yīng guó wēn shā shì.
    He is from Windsor, UK.
  • 温莎。
    wēn shā Wáng cháo shì yīng guó lì shǐ shàng zhù míng de wáng shì.
    The House of Windsor is a famous royal family in British history.
  • 温莎。
    Wǒ men jì huà qù jiā ná dà wēn shā lǚ yóu.
    We plan to travel to Windsor, Canada.

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.

温wēn
莎shā

The characters 温 and 莎 carry no meaning of their own here; they spell Windsor.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 溫; 温 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 溫 is based on an older form 𥁕, which drew a person bathing in a container full of warm water. The simplified 温 is a later variant.

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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
艸艸cǎograss
Sound part声符shēngfú
沙
沙shā莎shā
Same sound today

莎 pairs 艸, a grass component, with 沙, which supplies its sound.

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