菠萝 (bō luó) — pineapple | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

pineapple

Measure word · 个

菠萝，？
Zhè ge bō luó hěn tián, nǐ yào bú yào cháng yí kuài?
This pineapple is very sweet, would you like a piece?
菠萝。
Tā yòng bō luó zuò le shuǐ guǒ shā lā.
She made a fruit salad with pineapple.
菠萝。
Xià tiān wǒ tè bié xǐ huan hē bō luó zhī.
In summer I especially like drinking pineapple juice.

Single-morpheme word

构词法gòucífǎ

联绵liánmiánBound pair

Two characters that only ever appear together, spelling one ancient two-syllable word.

菠bō

The characters 菠 and 萝 carry no meaning of their own here; together they name the pineapple.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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 蘿; 萝 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

艸艸cǎo

Sound part声符shēngfú

羅

羅luó蘿luó

Same sound today

The traditional form 蘿 combines 艸 (plants) with 羅, which shows the pronunciation; the simplified 萝 is a later shorthand.

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