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华尔兹 (huá ěr zī) — waltz (a dance)

Definition

noun
waltz (a dance)
Measure word · 支

Examples

  • 华尔兹。
    Tā men huì tiào huá ěr zī.
    They can dance the waltz.
  • 华尔兹。
    Zhè shǒu huá ěr zī hěn hǎo tīng.
    This waltz sounds very nice.
  • 华尔兹？
    Nǐ xǐ huan tiào huá ěr zī hái shì tàn gē?
    Do you like dancing waltz or tango?

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.

华huá
尔ěr
兹zī

The characters 华, 尔, and 兹 carry no meaning of their own here; together they spell the foreign word waltz.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 華; 华 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 華 showed flowers on a plant, with stalk and leaves below. The simplified 华 is a later shorthand and not the original picture.

Open 华 →

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

假借jiǎjièLater borrowed for its sound alone — the picture has nothing to do with today’s meaning.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 爾; 尔 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 爾, simplified as 尔, originally drew cloth on a loom with crossing threads. It was borrowed for its sound to write “you,” so the picture is unrelated to that meaning.

Open 尔 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 兹 →
Appears in
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