斯德哥尔摩 (Sī dé gē ěr mó) — Stockholm

Definition

noun

Stockholm

Examples

斯德哥尔摩。
Wǒ míng nián dǎ suàn qù Sī dé gē ěr mó lǚ yóu.
I plan to travel to Stockholm next year.
斯德哥尔摩，。
Sī dé gē ěr mó Shì ruì diǎn de shǒu dū, fēi cháng měi lì.
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, very beautiful.
斯德哥尔摩。
Tā zài Sī dé gē ěr mó dà xué xué xí jīng jì xué.
He studies economics at Stockholm University.

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 斯德哥尔摩 only spell a foreign name; they carry no meaning of their own.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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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

彳彳chìroad

Sound part声符shēngfú

惪

惪dé德dé

Same sound today

德 combines 彳, a road, with 惪, a component meaning virtue that also supplies the sound.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 哥 →

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

假借jiǎjièLater borrowed for its sound alone — the picture has nothing to do with today’s meaning.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 爾; 尔 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 爾, simplified as 尔, originally drew cloth on a loom with crossing threads. It was borrowed for its sound to write “you,” so the picture is unrelated to that meaning.

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

麻手摩

Meaning part形符xíngfú

手手shǒuhand

Sound part声符shēngfú

麻

麻má摩mó

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

摩 combines 手 (hand) with 麻; the hand part relates to the meaning, and 麻 gives the sound.

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