玻利维亚 (Bō lì wéi yà) — Bolivia | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Bolivia

玻利维亚。
Wǒ jiāng lái xiǎng qù Bō lì wéi yà lǚ yóu.
I want to visit Bolivia in the future.
玻利维亚，。
Bō lì wéi yà Zài nán měi zhōu, yǒu hěn duō měi lì de fēng jǐng.
Bolivia is in South America and has many beautiful sceneries.
玻利维亚？
Nǐ tīng guò Bō lì wéi yà de shǒu dū jiào shén me míng zì ma?
Have you heard what the capital of Bolivia is called?

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

利 combines 禾 (grain) and 刀 (knife), showing a knife used to cut grain.

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 維; 维 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

糸糸mìthread

Sound part声符shēngfú

唯

Same sound today

In the traditional form 維, 糸 marks a thread meaning and 唯 provides the sound; the simplified 维 is a later shortened shape.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 亞; 亚 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 亞 likely shows an overhead view of a construction, perhaps a 亞-shaped tomb. Its later simplified form 亚 is just a shorthand.