匈牙利 (Xiōng yá lì) — Hungary | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Hungary

Examples

匈牙利。
Xiōng yá lì Shì yí gè ōu zhōu guó jiā.
Hungary is a European country.
匈牙利。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Xiōng yá lì lǚ xíng.
I want to travel to Hungary next year.
匈牙利。
Xiōng yá lì De shǒu dū shì bù dá pèi sī.
The capital of Hungary is Budapest.

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.

匈xiōng

The characters 匈牙利 spell the foreign name Hungary; they carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

勹凶匈

Meaning part形符xíngfú

勹勹bāo

Sound part声符shēngfú

凶

Same sound today

匈 pairs 勹, a part related to the meaning, with 凶, which gives the sound xiōng.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

禾禾hégrain
刀刀dāoknife

利 combines 禾 (grain) and 刀 (knife), showing a knife used to cut grain.

Appears in

International & Diplomacy

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