福尼亚

福尼亞
Fúníyà
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Meanings

  1. 1 -fornia (transliteration suffix found in California 加利福尼亚 and similar place names)

Examples

Jiālìfúníyà tōngcháng jiǎnchēng Jiāzhōu.
California is usually shortened to 'Jiazhou'.
Fúníyà zhè sān ge zì cháng chūxiàn zài Yīngyǔ dìmíng fānyì lǐ.
The three characters 'Fúníyà' often appear in transliterations of English place names.

Tips

usage
Not a standalone Chinese word — a phonetic suffix that surfaces in subtitle corpora as a chunk of place names ending in '-fornia'. The dominant case is 加利福尼亚 (California, 'Jiā-lì-fú-ní-yà'); the same suffix recurs in less common renderings of '-fornia'-ending names. (fú) renders 'for', (ní) renders 'ni', (yà) renders the final 'a'.

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