苏里南 (sū lǐ nán) — Suriname | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Suriname

苏里南。
sū lǐ nán Shì nán měi zhōu de yí gè guó jiā.
Suriname is a country in South America.
苏里南。
Tā xiǎng qù sū lǐ nán lǚ xíng.
He wants to travel to Suriname.
苏里南。
sū lǐ nán De shǒu dū shì pà lā mǎ lǐ bó.
The capital of Suriname is Paramaribo.

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 苏里南 carry no meaning of their own here; they transliterate the country name Suriname.

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.

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 裡; 里 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 里 stands for more than one traditional character. In most words (里, 里面) it is 裡; in others (公里) it is 里 or 裏.

衤里裡

Meaning part形符xíngfú

衤Written in full as衣yīclothes

Sound part声符shēngfú

里

Same sound today

The form 裡 pairs 衤 (clothes) with 里 as a sound component.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.