卡伦 (kǎ lún) — (historical) Mongolian border post, checkpoint

Definition

Historical term for a Qing-dynasty border post or checkpoint in Mongolian frontier regions, used as a defensive and administrative outpost.

noun

(historical) Mongolian border postcheckpoint

卡伦。
Qīng cháo zài biān jìng jiàn lì le xǔ duō kǎ lún.
The Qing dynasty established many border posts at the frontier.
卡伦。
kǎ lún Shì qīng dài měng gǔ dì qū de zhòng yào fáng yù shè shī.
Border posts were important defensive facilities in Qing-era Mongolia.
卡伦。
Lì shǐ xué jiā zhèng zài yán jiū zhè xiē kǎ lún de shè lì shí jiān.
Historians are studying the establishment dates of these border posts.

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.

卡伦 transliterates a foreign term for a Mongolian border post; its characters 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.

卡 is made from 上 (up) and 下 (down), with their horizontal lines fused, showing something squeezed between above and below.

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 倫; 伦 is its simplified writing.

人侖倫

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

侖

侖lún倫lún

Same sound today

The traditional form 倫 uses 人 to show people and 侖 to give its sound; the simplified 伦 is a later shorthand.

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