克里米亚 (Kè lǐ mǐ yà) — Crimea (peninsula in southern Ukraine, annexed…

Definition

noun

Crimea (peninsula in southern Ukraine, annexed by Russia in 2014)

克里米亚，。
Kè lǐ mǐ yà Wèi yú hēi hǎi běi àn, shì yí gè bàn dǎo.
Crimea is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea and is a peninsula.
克里米亚，。
Xǔ duō yóu kè qù Kè lǐ mǐ yà dù jià, xiǎng shòu nà lǐ de hǎi tān.
Many tourists go to Crimea for vacation and enjoy the beaches there.
2014克里米亚。
É luó sī zài 2014 nián xuān bù Kè lǐ mǐ yà jiā rù é luó sī lián bāng.
Russia announced in 2014 that Crimea joined the Russian Federation.

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 Crimea and carry no independent 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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 裡; 里 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 里 stands for more than one traditional character. In most words (里, 里面) it is 裡; in others (公里) it is 里 or 裏.

衤里裡

Meaning part形符xíngfú

衤Written in full as衣yīclothes

Sound part声符shēngfú

里

Same sound today

The form 裡 pairs 衤 (clothes) with 里 as a sound component.

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.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 亞; 亚 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 亞 likely shows an overhead view of a construction, perhaps a 亞-shaped tomb. Its later simplified form 亚 is just a shorthand.