衍声复词
Traditional form:
衍聲複詞
Pinyin (reading):
yǎnshēngfùcí
Definitions:
- compound word such as 玫瑰 (méiguī) or 咖啡 (kāfēi), whose meaning is unrelated to the component hanzi, which often cannot be used singly
Characters:
- 衍 - to overflow; to spread out
- 声 - sound, noise; voice, tone, music
- 复 - again, repeatedly; copy, duplicate; to restore, to return
- 词 - phrase, expression; words, speech
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