马里 (Mǎ lǐ) — Mali | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Mali

马里。
Mǎ lǐ Shì xī fēi de yí gè nèi lù guó jiā.
Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa.
马里。
Mǎ lǐ De shǒu dū shì bā mǎ kē.
The capital of Mali is Bamako.
马里。
Tā qù nián qù Mǎ lǐ lǚ xíng le yí gè yuè.
He traveled to Mali for a month last 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 together spell the foreign name Mali; they 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 馬; 马 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 馬 shows a horse with its head facing left, a flowing mane, and two legs standing vertically.

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.