帕多瓦 (pà duō wǎ) — Padua (city in Italy)

Definition

noun

Padua (city in Italy)

帕多瓦。
Wǒ qù nián qù le pà duō wǎ.
I went to Padua last year.
帕多瓦。
pà duō wǎ Shì yì dà lì de yí zuò gǔ chéng.
Padua is an ancient city in Italy.
帕多瓦？
Nǐ zhī dào pà duō wǎ zài nǎ r ma?
Do you know where Padua is?

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.

帕多瓦 spells the foreign name Padua; 帕, 多, and 瓦 carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

多 originally showed two pieces of meat placed together; the repeated meat shape gives the sense of many.

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

瓦’s shape is a picture of fired earthenware pottery or a tile.