洛扎 (Luò zhā) — Lhozhag (a county in Tibet)

Definition

noun

Lhozhag (a county in Tibet)

洛扎。
Luò zhā Wèi yú xī zàng zì zhì qū nán bù.
Lhozhag is located in southern Tibet Autonomous Region.
洛扎。
Qù nián wǒ qù le Luò zhā lǚ yóu.
I traveled to Lhozhag last year.
洛扎。
Luò zhā Shì yí gè měi lì de dì fāng.
Lhozhag is a beautiful place.

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.

洛扎 spells the Tibetan name Lhozhag; the characters 洛 and 扎 are used only for sound, not meaning.

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

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

Sound part声符shēngfú

乙

乙yǐ扎zhā

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

扎 is built from 手 (hand) and 乙, which gives the sound.