斯威士兰 (Sī wēi shì lán) — Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

威 is made by combining 戌 and 女.

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

The shape 士 comes from a simple drawing of a war axe. The character later came to mean a soldier, officer, or intellectual.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 蘭; 兰 is its simplified writing.

In the traditional form 蘭, 艹 marks it as a plant and 闌 stands for the sound; the simplified 兰 is a later shorthand, not the original parts.