维多利亚 (Wéi duō lì yà) — (noun) Victoria (place name, personal name); (a…

Definition

noun

Victoria (place name, personal name)

adjective

Victorian

维多利亚。
Wǒ míng nián dǎ suàn qù ào dà lì yà de Wéi duō lì yà zhōu lǚ yóu.
I plan to travel to Victoria state in Australia next year.
维多利亚。
Wéi duō lì yà Nǚ wáng shì yīng guó lì shǐ shàng zài wèi shí jiān zuì cháng de jūn zhǔ zhī yī.
Queen Victoria is one of the longest-reigning monarchs in British history.
维多利亚。
Zhè zuò jiàn zhù shì diǎn xíng de Wéi duō lì yà fēng gé.
This building is a typical Victorian style.

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 维多利亚 carry no meaning of their own here; together they spell the foreign name Victoria.

Sound-only characters

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.

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

多 originally showed two pieces of meat placed together; the repeated meat shape gives the sense of many.

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.

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.