诺丁汉 (Nuò dīng hàn) — Nottingham (city in England)

Definition

noun

Nottingham (city in England)

诺丁汉。
Wǒ qù nián qù Nuò dīng hàn cān guān le yì suǒ dà xué.
I went to visit a university in Nottingham last year.
诺丁汉。
Nuò dīng hàn Shì yīng guó zhōng bù de yí gè zhòng yào chéng shì.
Nottingham is an important city in central England.
诺丁汉。
Tā dǎ suàn zài Nuò dīng hàn liú xué liǎng nián.
He plans to study abroad in Nottingham for two years.

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 only spell the English place name Nottingham; none carries an independent meaning here.

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 諾; 诺 is its simplified writing.

言若諾

Meaning part形符xíngfú

言言yánword, speak

Sound part声符shēngfú

若

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 諾 pairs 言, meaning word or speak, with 若 as a sound part, for an affirmative answer. The simplified 诺 is a later shorthand.

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

丁 may picture a nail head, a person's head, a square city wall, or a square star pattern.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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