诺福克 (nuò fú kè) — Norfolk (a county in eastern England, also used…

Definition

noun

Norfolk (a county in eastern England, also used as a place name elsewhere)

诺福克。
nuò fú kè Shì yīng guó dōng bù de yí gè jùn.
Norfolk is a county in eastern England.
诺福克。
Wǒ míng nián xià tiān dǎ suàn qù nuò fú kè lǚ xíng.
I plan to travel to Norfolk next summer.
诺福克。
nuò fú kè De hǎi àn xiàn fēi cháng měi lì.
Norfolk's coastline is very beautiful.

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 诺福克 only spell the English place name Norfolk; they carry no meaning of their own here.

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 諾; 诺 is its simplified writing.

言若諾

Meaning part形符xíngfú

言言yánword, speak

Sound part声符shēngfú

若

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 諾 pairs 言, meaning word or speak, with 若 as a sound part, for an affirmative answer. The simplified 诺 is a later shorthand.

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

Sound part声符shēngfú

畐

畐fú福fú

Same sound today

福 combines 示 and 畐, with 示 carrying the meaning and 畐 the sound.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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