卡姆登 (kǎ mǔ dēng) — Camden (place name) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Camden (place name)

Examples

卡姆登。
Wǒ qù nián qù le kǎ mǔ dēng lǚ yóu.
I went to Camden for travel last year.
卡姆登。
kǎ mǔ dēng Shì lún dūn de yí gè zhù míng jiē qū.
Camden is a famous area in London.
卡姆登。
Tā zài kǎ mǔ dēng de yì jiā kā fēi guǎn gōng zuò.
She works at a coffee shop in Camden.

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.

姆mǔ

卡姆登 spells Camden; 卡, 姆, and 登 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.

上上shàngup
下下xiàdown

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.

女母姆

Meaning part形符xíngfú

女女nǚfemale

Sound part声符shēngfú

母

Same sound today

姆 pairs 女 (female) on the left with 母 on the right, and 母 gives the sound.

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

癶豆登

癶癶bōleft and right feet
豆豆dòupictogrammic of raised object; stepping stone

登 pairs 癶, left and right feet, with 豆, a raised object or stepping stone; its older form also showed two hands at the bottom, which later dropped.

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