衍聲複詞 yǎn shēng fù cí

DEFINITIONS

  1. compound word such as 玫瑰[mei2 gui1], 咖啡[ka1 fei1], whose meaning is unrelated to the component hanzi, which often cannot be used singly

CHARACTERS

衍 yǎn
HSK 6
overflow, spill over, spread out
聲 shēng sound, voice, noise; tone; music
複 fù repeat, double, overlap
詞 cí words; phrase, expression