博罗 (Bó luó) — Boluo (a county in Guangdong Province, China)

Definition

noun

Boluo (a county in Guangdong Province, China)

博罗。
Bó luó Wèi yú guǎng dōng shěng de dōng nán bù.
Boluo is located in the southeastern part of Guangdong Province.
博罗。
Bó luó Yǒu hěn duō zhù míng de lǚ yóu jǐng diǎn.
Boluo has many famous tourist attractions.
博罗。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Bó luó kàn kàn.
I want to go visit Boluo next year.

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 博罗 carry no meaning of their own; they spell the place name Boluo.

Sound-only characters

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

十尃博

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

尃

尃fū博

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The shape comes from combining 十 (ten) with 尃; 尃 gives the sound.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 羅; 罗 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 羅 combines 网 (net) with 維 (a bird tied with string) to show a net for catching birds; the simplified 罗 is a later abbreviation.

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