莫桑比克 (Mò sāng bǐ kè) — Mozambique

Definition

noun
Mozambique

Examples

  • 莫桑比克。
    Wǒ tīng shuō Mò sāng bǐ kè hěn měi.
    I heard Mozambique is very beautiful.
  • 莫桑比克。
    Mò sāng bǐ kè Zài fēi zhōu de dōng nán bù.
    Mozambique is in the southeastern part of Africa.
  • 莫桑比克。
    Tā de péng you lái zì Mò sāng bǐ kè.
    His friend is from Mozambique.

Origin

Characters in this word

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

The shape of 莫 shows a sun sinking into bushes, meaning dusk.

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

桑 is a picture of a mulberry tree, with its upper part drawn as the tree's foliage.

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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.

  • 匕匕bǐ
  • 匕匕bǐ

比 is two 匕 placed side by side. Chu Wan-li treats both as sound parts, while an old reading takes the side-by-side arrangement as putting things next to each other.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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