卡通片 (kǎ tōng piàn) — animated film, cartoon | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

animated filmcartoon

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Examples

卡通片。
Wǒ xiǎo shí hou zuì xǐ huan kàn dí shì ní kǎ tōng piàn.
I loved watching Disney cartoons when I was a child.
卡通片。
Zhè bù kǎ tōng piàn de gù shi qíng jié fēi cháng gǎn rén.
The storyline of this animated film is very touching.
卡通片。
Hái zi men zuò zài diàn shì jī qián kàn kǎ tōng piàn.
The children sat in front of the TV watching cartoons.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

卡通cartoon

音译Transliteration

卡通 spells cartoon, 片 means film, together giving an animated film.

Characters in this word

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

上上shàngup
下下xiàdown

卡 is made from 上 (up) and 下 (down), with their horizontal lines fused, showing something squeezed between above and below.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

辶甬通

Meaning part形符xíngfú

辶Written in full as辵chuò

Sound part声符shēngfú

甬

甬yǒng通tōng

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

通 pairs 辶, a part associated with movement, with 甬, which gives the sound.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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