尼古丁 (ní gǔ dīng) — nicotine | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

nicotine

尼古丁。
Xiāng yān lǐ hán yǒu dà liàng de ní gǔ dīng.
Cigarettes contain a large amount of nicotine.
尼古丁。
ní gǔ dīng Shì yì zhǒng yǒu dú de wù zhì.
Nicotine is a toxic substance.
，尼古丁。
Tā jué dìng jiè yān, yīn wèi duì ní gǔ dīng shàng yǐn le.
He decided to quit smoking because he became addicted to nicotine.

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 尼古丁 carry no meaning of their own here; they spell nicotine.

Sound-only characters

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

The shape draws one person sitting on or leaning against another person, giving the sense of stopping close to someone.

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

One reading of 古 sees a shield-like shape above an open mark, showing strength and firmness. Another sees a person spitting out bad-tasting food.

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

丁 may picture a nail head, a person's head, a square city wall, or a square star pattern.

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