奥尔良 (Aò ěr liáng) — Orléans (city in France)

Definition

noun
Orléans (city in France)
Measure word · 座

Examples

  • 奥尔良。
    Aò ěr liáng Shì fǎ guó de yí gè chéng shì.
    Orléans is a city in France.
  • 奥尔良。
    Wǒ péng you zhù zài Aò ěr liáng.
    My friend lives in Orléans.
  • 奥尔良。
    Cóng bā lí dào Aò ěr liáng zuò huǒ chē hěn kuài.
    It's very fast to take the train from Paris to Orléans.

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.

奥ào
尔ěr
良liáng

奥 尔 良 carry no meaning of their own here; the word spells Orléans.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

假借jiǎjièLater borrowed for its sound alone — the picture has nothing to do with today’s meaning.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 爾; 尔 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 爾, simplified as 尔, originally drew cloth on a loom with crossing threads. It was borrowed for its sound to write “you,” so the picture is unrelated to that meaning.

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

良 possibly depicts corridors and a room.

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