肯尼亚 (kěn ní yà) — Kenya | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Kenya

肯尼亚。
Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù kěn ní yà lǚ yóu.
I want to travel to Kenya next year.
肯尼亚。
kěn ní yà Shì fēi zhōu dōng bù de yí gè guó jiā.
Kenya is a country in East Africa.
肯尼亚。
kěn ní yà De yě shēng dòng wù fēi cháng yǒu míng.
Kenya's wildlife is very famous.

Characters in this word

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

肯 is described as showing 冎 (bone) and 肉 (meat), meaning meat attached to the bone.

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.