意大利 (Yì dà lì) — Italy | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Italy

意大利。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Yì dà lì lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Italy next year.
意大利。
Yì dà lì De zú qiú bǐ sài fēi cháng jīng cǎi.
Italy's football matches are very exciting.
意大利。
Tā xué huì le zuò Yì dà lì cài.
She learned how to cook Italian food.

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 only spell the foreign name for Italy; they do not contribute their usual meanings.

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.

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

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

利 combines 禾 (grain) and 刀 (knife), showing a knife used to cut grain.

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