雷克雅未克 (léi kè yǎ wèi kè) — Reykjavik (capital of Iceland) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Reykjavik (capital of Iceland)

Examples

雷克雅未克。
Wǒ míng nián xià tiān xiǎng qù léi kè yǎ wèi kè lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Reykjavik next summer.
雷克雅未克，。
léi kè yǎ wèi kè Shì bīng dǎo de shǒu dū, rén kǒu bù duō.
Reykjavik is the capital of Iceland, with a small population.
雷克雅未克。
Cóng léi kè yǎ wèi kè kāi chē bàn xiǎo shí jiù néng kàn dào jí guāng.
From Reykjavik, you can see the northern lights after a half-hour drive.

Origin

Characters in this word

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

雨雨yǔrain

Sound part声符shēngfú

畾

畾léi雷léi

Same sound today

The top 雨 (rain) points to the meaning, and the bottom 畾 gives the sound.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

隹牙雅

Meaning part形符xíngfú

隹隹zhuīa short-tailed bird

Sound part声符shēngfú

牙

牙yá雅yǎ

Same sound today

雅 pairs 隹, a short-tailed bird, with 牙 as its sound part; the bird was a rook/crow, and the sense was extended to refined.

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

The shape 未 shows a tree with extra branches spreading above its trunk, like lush, overlapping limbs.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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