吉尼斯 (Jí ní sī) — Guinness (brand of beer and world records)

Definition

noun

Guinness (brand of beer and world records)

吉尼斯。
Tā yǒu yí gè Jí ní sī shì jiè jì lù.
He has a Guinness World Record.
吉尼斯。
Zhè běn Jí ní sī shì jiè jì lù dà quán hěn shòu huān yíng.
This Guinness World Records book is very popular.
吉尼斯。
Tā xiǎng hē yì bēi Jí ní sī pí jiǔ.
He wants to drink a glass of Guinness beer.

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.

吉尼斯 only spells the loan name Guinness; the characters carry no meaning of their own.

Sound-only characters

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

In the earliest forms, 吉 was drawn with a mouth-like lower part and an upper part that later became today's upper shape.

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

The shape draws one person sitting on or leaning against another person, giving the sense of stopping close to someone.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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