卡诺 (kǎ nuò) — Kano (city in Nigeria) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Kano (city in Nigeria)

卡诺。
kǎ nuò Shì ní rì lì yà de yí gè zhòng yào chéng shì.
Kano is an important city in Nigeria.
卡诺。
Wǒ cóng lái méi qù guò kǎ nuò.
I have never been to Kano.
卡诺。
kǎ nuò Yǐ tā de chuán tǒng shǒu gōng yì wén míng.
Kano is famous for its traditional handicrafts.

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.

卡诺 spells a foreign place name; the 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 諾; 诺 is its simplified writing.

言若諾

Meaning part形符xíngfú

言言yánword, speak

Sound part声符shēngfú

若

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 諾 pairs 言, meaning word or speak, with 若 as a sound part, for an affirmative answer. The simplified 诺 is a later shorthand.

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