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老挝 (Lǎo wō) — Laos

Definition

noun
Laos

Examples

  • 老挝。
    Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Lǎo wō lǚ yóu.
    I want to travel to Laos next year.
  • 老挝。
    Lǎo wō De shǒu dū shì wàn xiàng.
    The capital of Laos is Vientiane.
  • 老挝、。
    Lǎo wō Hé yuè nán, tài guó jiē rǎng.
    Laos borders Vietnam and Thailand.

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.

老lǎo
挝wō

老挝 spells the foreign name for Laos; the characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

The shape 老 combines 人 (man), 毛 (hair), and 匕 (cane), showing a man with long hair leaning on a cane.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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