克什米尔 (Kè shí mǐ ěr) — Kashmir (region in South Asia)

Definition

noun
Kashmir (region in South Asia)

Examples

  • 克什米尔。
    Kè shí mǐ ěr Shì yìn dù hé bā jī sī tǎn zhī jiān yǒu zhēng yì de dì qū.
    Kashmir is a disputed region between India and Pakistan.
  • 克什米尔。
    Xǔ duō yóu kè xǐ huan qù Kè shí mǐ ěr xīn shǎng xǐ mǎ lā yǎ shān de měi jǐng.
    Many tourists love to go to Kashmir to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Himalayas.
  • 克什米尔。
    Kè shí mǐ ěr De wén huà róng hé le duō zhǒng zōng jiào hé chuán tǒng.
    Kashmir's culture blends many religions and traditions.

Origin

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.

克kè
什shén
米mǐ
尔ěr

The characters merely spell Kashmir and carry no meanings here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

米 is a picture of rice kernels without husk, with the horizontal stroke as a bamboo sieve. It is unrelated to similar-looking grain characters.

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

假借jiǎjièLater borrowed for its sound alone — the picture has nothing to do with today’s meaning.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 爾; 尔 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 爾, simplified as 尔, originally drew cloth on a loom with crossing threads. It was borrowed for its sound to write “you,” so the picture is unrelated to that meaning.

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