苏丹 (Sū dān) — Sudan (country) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Sudan (country)

苏丹。
Sū dān Wèi yú fēi zhōu dōng běi bù.
Sudan is located in northeastern Africa.
苏丹。
Ní luó hé liú jīng Sū dān quán jìng.
The Nile River flows through the entire territory of Sudan.
苏丹。
Sū dān De shǒu dū shì kā tǔ mù.
The capital of Sudan is Khartoum.

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 苏 and 丹 carry no meaning of their own here; together they spell the name Sudan.

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 蘇; 苏 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 苏 stands for more than one traditional character. In most words it is 蘇; in others it is 甦 or 囌.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

艸艸cǎograss; plant

Sound part声符shēngfú

穌

穌sū蘇Sū

Same sound today

The traditional form 蘇 uses 艸 (grass; plant) for meaning and 穌 for sound; the simplified 苏 is a later shorthand.

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

The shape 丹 shows a well or mine with red cinnabar inside.

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