佛得角 (Fó dé jiǎo) — Cape Verde | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Cape Verde

佛得角，。
Fó dé jiǎo Wèi yú fēi zhōu xī hǎi àn, shì yí gè dǎo guó.
Cape Verde is located off the west coast of Africa and is an island nation.
佛得角，。
Qù nián xià tiān wǒ qù le Fó dé jiǎo, nà lǐ de hǎi tān fēi cháng piào liang.
Last summer I went to Cape Verde; the beaches there are very beautiful.
佛得角，。
Fó dé jiǎo De guān fāng yǔ yán shì pú tao yá yǔ, dàn dāng dì rén yě shuō kè lǐ ào ěr yǔ.
The official language of Cape Verde is Portuguese, but locals also speak Creole.

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.

佛得角 spells the foreign name Cape Verde; the characters carry no meaning 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.

亻弗佛

Meaning part形符xíngfú

亻Written in full as人rénperson

Sound part声符shēngfú

弗

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

佛 is made from 亻, a person, and 弗, which gives the sound.

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

The old form 㝵 showed a hand picking up a cowry, meaning to obtain; later changes turned that picture into 得.

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

The form 角 is a picture of a horn.