门罗 (Mén luó) — Monroe (surname or given name); James Monroe (1…

Definition

noun

Monroe (surname or given name)James Monroe (1758–1831), fifth President of the United States

姆·门罗。
Měi guó dì wǔ rèn zǒng tǒng shì zhān mǔ sī · Mén luó.
The fifth president of the United States was James Monroe.
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Nǐ dú guò Mén luó zǒng tǒng de zhuàn jì ma?
Have you read the biography of President Monroe?
门罗。
Mén luó Zhǔ yì shì měi guó wài jiāo zhèng cè de zhòng yào bù fen.
The Monroe Doctrine is an important part of American foreign policy.

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 in 门罗 only spell the foreign name Monroe; they carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 門; 门 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 門 pictures a gate as two door shapes side by side; the simplified 门 is a later shorthand.

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.