列日 (liè rì) — Liège (city in Belgium)

Definition

noun

Liège (city in Belgium)

Easily confused

列日。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù liè rì lǚ xíng.
I want to travel to Liège next year.
列日。
liè rì Shì bǐ lì shí de yí gè zhòng yào chéng shì.
Liège is an important city in Belgium.
列日，。
liè rì Wèi yú bǐ lì shí dōng bù, kào jìn dé guó.
Liège is located in eastern Belgium, near Germany.

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.

Liège spells a foreign name; the characters 列 and 日 carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

列 combines 歹, drawn as skeletal remains, and 刀, a knife, to depict tearing apart.

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

日 originally drew the sun. A mark was added inside to tell it apart from similar square shapes.