兰西 (Lán xī) — Lanxi County (in Heilongjiang Province)

Definition

noun

Lanxi County (in Heilongjiang Province)

兰西。
Wǒ qù nián xià tiān qù guò Lán xī.
I went to Lanxi last summer.
兰西。
Lán xī Shì hēi lóng jiāng shěng de yí gè xiàn.
Lanxi is a county in Heilongjiang Province.
兰西。
Cóng hā ěr bīn dào Lán xī kāi chē zhǐ yào liǎng xiǎo shí.
It only takes two hours to drive from Harbin to Lanxi.

Characters in this word

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 蘭; 兰 is its simplified writing.

艹闌蘭

Meaning part形符xíngfú

艹Written in full as艸cǎoplant

Sound part声符shēngfú

闌

闌lán蘭lán

Same sound today

In the traditional form 蘭, 艹 marks it as a plant and 闌 stands for the sound; the simplified 兰 is a later shorthand, not the original parts.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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