车臣 (Chē chén) — Chechnya (republic in southwestern Russia)

Definition

noun
Chechnya (republic in southwestern Russia)

Examples

  • 车臣。
    Chē chén Shì é luó sī nán bù de yí gè gòng hé guó.
    Chechnya is a republic in southwestern Russia.
  • 车臣。
    Wǒ míng nián xiǎng qù Chē chén lǚ xíng.
    I want to travel to Chechnya next year.
  • 车臣。
    Zuó tiān xīn wén lǐ yòu bào dào le Chē chén.
    The news reported on Chechnya again yesterday.

Origin

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.

车chē
臣chén

车臣 spells the foreign name Chechnya; its characters carry no meaning of their own here.

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 車; 车 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 車 was drawn as a carriage seen from above, with wheels on both sides and a shaft at the front; the simplified 车 is a later shorthand.

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

臣 is shaped like a man's vertical eye looking downward.

Open 臣 →

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