塔吉克人 (Tǎ jí kè rén) — Tajik (person) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Tajik (person)

Measure word · 个

Examples

塔吉克人。
Tā shì lái zhōng guó xué xí de Tǎ jí kè rén.
He is a Tajik person who came to China to study.
塔吉克人。
Zhè xiē Tǎ jí kè rén dōu shì wǒ de péng you.
These Tajik people are all my friends.
塔吉克人。
Tǎ jí kè rén De wén huà fēi cháng dú tè.
The culture of the Tajik people is very unique.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

塔吉克

塔tǎ吉jí克kè

塔吉克 names the ethnic group, and 人 points to a person of that group.

Characters in this word

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

土荅塔

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

荅

荅dá塔tǎ

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

塔 shows 土 (earth) for the meaning and 荅 (dá) for the sound.

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

In the earliest forms, 吉 was drawn with a mouth-like lower part and an upper part that later became today's upper shape.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

The shape of 人 shows a side view of a standing person, with an arm and a leg.

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