罗曼史 (luó màn shǐ) — romantic story, romance

Definition

noun

romantic storyromance

Measure word · 个

罗曼史。
Tā xiě le yí bù guān yú tā men ài qíng de luó màn shǐ.
He wrote a romance about their love.
罗曼史。
Zhè bù diàn yǐng shì yí bù jīng diǎn de luó màn shǐ.
This film is a classic romance.
罗曼史。
Tā men de luó màn shǐ shǐ yú dà xué shí dài.
Their romance began in their college days.

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 spell a foreign sound for 'romance'; here they do not carry separate meanings.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 羅; 罗 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 羅 combines 网 (net) with 維 (a bird tied with string) to show a net for catching birds; the simplified 罗 is a later abbreviation.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

The old drawing showed someone holding a flag-like or writing tool, indicating the act of recording events; the exact inner shape is unclear.

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