巴马 (bā mǎ) — Bama (a county in Guangxi, China, known for its…

Definition

noun

Bama (a county in Guangxi, China, known for its longevity villages)

巴马。
Wǒ tīng shuō bā mǎ yǒu hěn duō cháng shòu lǎo rén.
I heard that Bama has many long-lived elderly people.
巴马。
Tā lái zì guǎng xī de bā mǎ xiàn.
He comes from Bama County in Guangxi.
巴马。
bā mǎ Yǐ zì rán fēng guāng wén míng.
Bama is famous for its natural scenery.

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 巴 and 马 carry no independent meaning here; the word spells the place name Bama.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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.

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