哥伦比亚 (Gē lún bǐ yà) — Colombia | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Colombia

Examples

哥伦比亚。
Gē lún bǐ yà Shì nán měi zhōu de yí gè guó jiā.
Colombia is a country in South America.
哥伦比亚。
Wǒ gē ge qù nián qù Gē lún bǐ yà lǚ yóu le.
My older brother traveled to Colombia last year.
哥伦比亚。
Gē lún bǐ yà De kā fēi hěn yǒu míng.
Colombian coffee is very famous.

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.

The characters carry no meaning of their own here; together they spell the foreign name Colombia.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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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

人人rén

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

匕匕bǐ
匕匕bǐ

比 is two 匕 placed side by side. Chu Wan-li treats both as sound parts, while an old reading takes the side-by-side arrangement as putting things next to each other.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 亞; 亚 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 亞 likely shows an overhead view of a construction, perhaps a 亞-shaped tomb. Its later simplified form 亚 is just a shorthand.

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Appears in

International & Diplomacy

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