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萨拉热窝 (Sà lā rè wō) — Sarajevo

Definition

noun
Sarajevo

Examples

  • 萨拉热窝。
    Tā qù nián qù Sà lā rè wō lǚ yóu le yí gè xīng qī.
    He went to Sarajevo last year for a week of sightseeing.
  • 萨拉热窝。
    Sà lā rè wō Shì bō sī ní yà hé hēi sài gē wéi nà de shǒu dū.
    Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • 萨拉热窝。
    Tā xiě le yì běn guān yú Sà lā rè wō lì shǐ de shū.
    She wrote a book about the history of Sarajevo.

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.

萨sà
拉lā
热rè
窝wō

The characters only together spell Sarajevo; none carries its own meaning here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 萨 →

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
手手shǒuhand
Sound part声符shēngfú
立
立lì拉lā
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

拉 pairs 手 (hand) with 立, a component that supplies the sound.

Open 拉 →

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 熱; 热 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
灬Written in full as火huǒfire
Sound part声符shēngfú
埶
埶yì熱rè
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 熱 pairs 埶 with 火 (written as 灬) to show heat, while 埶 gives a sound.

Open 热 →

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 窩; 窝 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
穴穴xuécave
Sound part声符shēngfú
咼
咼wāi窩wō
Same sound today

The traditional form 窩 uses 穴, a cave, for meaning and 咼 for sound; the simplified 窝 is a later shorthand.

Open 窝 →
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