比绍 (Bǐ shào) — Bissau (capital of Guinea-Bissau)

Definition

noun

Bissau (capital of Guinea-Bissau)

Examples

比绍。
Bǐ shào Shì jǐ nèi yà bǐ shào de shǒu dū.
Bissau is the capital of Guinea-Bissau.
比绍。
Tā qù nián qù Bǐ shào chū chāi le yí gè yuè.
He went on a business trip to Bissau for a month last year.
比绍。
Bǐ shào Wèi yú xī fēi hǎi àn fù jìn.
Bissau is located near the coast of West Africa.

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.

比bǐ

绍shào

比绍 spells the foreign name Bissau; the characters carry no meaning 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.

匕匕bǐ
匕匕bǐ

比 is two 匕 placed side by side. Chu Wan-li treats both as sound parts, while an old reading takes the side-by-side arrangement as putting things next to each other.

Open 比 →

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 紹; 绍 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

糸糸mì

Sound part声符shēngfú

召

召zhào紹shào

Same sound today

The traditional form 紹 pairs 糸 with 召: 糸 is the meaning part, and 召 is the sound part. This explanation is about 紹, not the simplified 绍.

Open 绍 →

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