罗马 (Luó mǎ) — Rome (capital of Italy)

Definition

noun

Rome (capital of Italy)

罗马。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Luó mǎ lǚ yóu.
I want to go to Rome for a trip next year.
罗马。
Luó mǎ Shì yí zuò lì shǐ yōu jiǔ de chéng shì.
Rome is a city with a long history.
罗马。
Tā qù nián zài Luó mǎ zhù le sān gè yuè.
He lived in Rome for three months last year.

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 罗 and 马 carry no meaning of their own here; together they spell the name Rome.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 羅; 罗 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 羅 combines 网 (net) with 維 (a bird tied with string) to show a net for catching birds; the simplified 罗 is a later abbreviation.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 馬; 马 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 馬 shows a horse with its head facing left, a flowing mane, and two legs standing vertically.

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