大马 (Dà Mǎ) — Malaysia (colloquial nickname)

Definition

大马 (Dà Mǎ) is a colloquial Chinese nickname for Malaysia, used casually in spoken and informal writing rather than the formal name 马来西亚.

noun

Malaysia (colloquial nickname)

Easily confused

大马，。
Wǒ dǎ suàn míng nián qù Dà Mǎ lǚ xíng, kàn kàn shuāng zǐ tǎ hé bīn chéng de lǎo jiē.
I plan to travel to Malaysia next year and see the Petronas Towers and the old streets of Penang.
大马，。
Dà Mǎ De měi shí hěn yǒu tè sè, yóu qí shì yē jiāng fàn hé shā diē.
Malaysian cuisine is very distinctive, especially nasi lemak and satay.
大马。
Zuì jìn Dà Mǎ hé zhōng guó zhī jiān de mào yì é zēng zhǎng hěn kuài.
Recently, the trade volume between Malaysia and China has been growing rapidly.

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.

大马 is a clipped foreign-name form for Malaysia; the characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 馬; 马 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 馬 shows a horse with its head facing left, a flowing mane, and two legs standing vertically.