黑森 (hēi sēn) — Hessen (German state) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Hessen (German state)

黑森。
Míng nián wǒ dǎ suàn qù hēi sēn lǚ xíng.
I plan to travel to Hessen next year.
黑森。
hēi sēn Shì dé guó zhòng yào de jīng jì zhōng xīn.
Hessen is an important economic center in Germany.
黑森。
Fǎ lán kè fú jī chǎng wèi yú hēi sēn.
Frankfurt Airport is located in Hessen.

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.

黑森 spells the foreign name Hessen; the 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.

The shape of 黑 seems to come from drawing a head marked with dots, usually read as facial tattoos.

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

The form 森 stacks three tree-like shapes to show many trees in a forest.