马丁尼 (mǎ dīng ní) — martini | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

martini

Measure word · 杯

马丁尼。
Wǒ yào yì bēi mǎ dīng ní.
I'd like a martini.
马丁尼。
Zhè bēi mǎ dīng ní wèi dào hěn hǎo.
This martini tastes great.
马丁尼。
Tā měi tiān wǎn shàng hē yì bēi mǎ dīng ní.
He drinks a martini every evening.

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 only spell the foreign name martini; none carries its own meaning in this word.

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 馬; 马 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 馬 shows a horse with its head facing left, a flowing mane, and two legs standing vertically.

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

丁 may picture a nail head, a person's head, a square city wall, or a square star pattern.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

The shape draws one person sitting on or leaning against another person, giving the sense of stopping close to someone.