罗马尼亚 (Luó mǎ ní yà) — Romania | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Romania

罗马尼亚。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Luó mǎ ní yà lǚ xíng.
I want to travel to Romania next year.
罗马尼亚。
Luó mǎ ní yà Zài ōu zhōu dōng nán bù.
Romania is in southeastern Europe.
罗马尼亚。
Tā lái zì Luó mǎ ní yà de shǒu dū bù jiā lè sī tè.
He comes from Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

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.

罗马尼亚 spells Romania; its characters carry no meaning of their own here.

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.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 馬; 马 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 馬 shows a horse with its head facing left, a flowing mane, and two legs standing vertically.

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

The shape draws one person sitting on or leaning against another person, giving the sense of stopping close to someone.

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.