考文垂 (Kǎo wén chuí) — Coventry (city in the West Midlands, England)

Definition

noun

Coventry (city in the West Midlands, England)

考文垂。
Kǎo wén chuí Shì yīng guó de yí zuò lì shǐ míng chéng.
Coventry is a historic city in England.
考文垂。
Wǒ míng nián dǎ suàn qù Kǎo wén chuí lǚ xíng.
I plan to travel to Coventry next year.
考文垂。
Kǎo wén chuí De qì chē gōng yè céng jīng fēi cháng fā dá.
Coventry's automotive industry was once very developed.

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 the foreign place name Coventry; here they carry no meaning of their own.

Sound-only characters

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

耂丂考

In 考, the upper 耂 is an old man with long hair, bent over, and the lower 丂 is a walking cane.

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

The current form 文 shows a man with head, arms, legs, and chest; the tattoo marks on the chest are no longer drawn.

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

垂 combines 𠂹 and 土 to draw flowers hanging down from a plant.