克朗 (kè lǎng) — krone (currency of Norway, Denmark, Iceland, an… | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

krone (currency of Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden)

Examples

克朗。
Wǒ qù ruì diǎn lǚ xíng shí huàn le yì qiān kè lǎng.
I exchanged one thousand kronor when traveling to Sweden.
克朗？
Dān mài kè lǎng duì rén mín bì de huì lǜ shì duō shǎo?
What is the exchange rate of Danish kroner to Chinese yuan?
克朗克朗。
Bīng dǎo kè lǎng bǐ nuó wēi kè lǎng zhí qián yì xiē.
Icelandic kronur are worth a bit more than Norwegian kroner.

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.

克朗 spells the foreign name for the currency; the characters carry no meaning here.

Sound-only characters

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

月月yuèmoon

Sound part声符shēngfú

良

良liáng朗lǎng

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

朗 pairs 月, the moon, with 良 as a sound part.

Appears in

Money & Currency

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