丽水 (Lí shuǐ) — Lishui (prefecture-level city in Zhejiang provi…

Definition

noun

Lishui (prefecture-level city in Zhejiang province)

丽水。
Wǒ míng nián dǎ suàn qù Lí shuǐ lǚ yóu.
I plan to travel to Lishui next year.
丽水浙，。
Lí shuǐ Wèi yú zhè jiāng shěng xī nán bù, fēng jǐng yōu měi.
Lishui is located in the southwest of Zhejiang province, with beautiful scenery.
丽水，。
Tā de jiā xiāng shì Lí shuǐ, nà lǐ yǐ shān shuǐ wén míng.
His hometown is Lishui, which is famous for its mountains and rivers.

Single-morpheme word

构词法gòucífǎ

联绵liánmiánBound pair

Two characters that only ever appear together, spelling one ancient two-syllable word.

In 丽水, the characters 丽 and 水 do not carry meanings of their own here; together they name a city.

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 麗; 丽 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 麗 originally showed a deer with antlers. The simplified 丽 is a later shorthand.

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

水 is a simple drawing of water flowing.