托洛茨基 (Tuō luò cí jī) — Leon Trotsky | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

Transliteration of 'Trotsky' (1879–1940), the Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist who lost the power struggle to Stalin after Lenin's death.

noun

Leon Trotsky

Examples

托洛茨基。
Tuō luò cí jī Shì é guó gé mìng de zhòng yào rén wù.
Trotsky was an important figure in the Russian Revolution.
托洛茨基。
Tā xiě le yì běn guān yú Tuō luò cí jī de zhuàn jì.
He wrote a biography about Trotsky.
托洛茨基。
Tuō luò cí jī De sī xiǎng duì èr shí shì jì lì shǐ yǒu hěn dà yǐng xiǎng.
Trotsky's ideas had a great influence on twentieth-century history.

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.

The characters only spell the foreign name Trotsky; they carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

手手shǒuhand

Sound part声符shēngfú

乇

乇tuō托tuō

Same sound today

托 is built from 手 (hand) and 乇, which gives the sound tuō.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

水水shuǐwater

Sound part声符shēngfú

各

各gè洛Luò

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

洛 shows 水 (water) and 各, and 各 supplies the sound.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

艸艸cǎo

Sound part声符shēngfú

次

次cì茨cí

Same sound today

The plant part 艸 shows this is a plant-related word, and 次 gives the sound.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

其土基

Meaning part形符xíngfú

土土tǔearth

Sound part声符shēngfú

其

其qí基jī

Same sound today

The lower 土 means earth, and the upper 其 gives the sound; together they form the idea of a foundation of earth.

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