贝宁 (Bèi níng) — Benin | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Benin

贝宁，。
Bèi níng Wèi yú fēi zhōu xī bù, shì yí gè fǎ yǔ guó jiā.
Benin is located in West Africa and is a French-speaking country.
贝宁。
Bèi níng De shǒu dū shì bō duō nuò fú.
The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo.
贝宁。
Wǒ jì huà míng nián qù Bèi níng lǚ xíng.
I plan to travel to Benin next year.

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 carry no meaning here; the word transliterates the country name Benin.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 貝; 贝 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 貝, not the simplified 贝, shows a cowrie shell used as money in ancient China.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 寧; 宁 is its simplified writing.