品牌 (pǐn pái) — brand, brand name | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

品牌 (pǐnpái) refers to a brand or brand name in the commercial / marketing sense — e.g. product lines, company names. Compared with 牌子 (which also means a shop sign or label on a product), 品牌 is the more formal, business-oriented term.

noun

brandbrand name

Measure word · 个

Examples

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Wǒ xiǎng mǎi yí gè xīn pǐn pái de shǒu jī.
I want to buy a phone from a new brand.
品牌。
Zhè ge pǐn pái de yī fu zhì liàng hěn hǎo.
This brand's clothes have very good quality.
品牌。
Hěn duō wài guó pǐn pái zài zhōng guó hěn shòu huān yíng.
Many foreign brands are very popular in China.

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.

品 names the goods and 牌 the mark, together identifying a brand.

Characters in this word

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

品 repeats the same simple shape three times, representing various objects.

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

片卑牌

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

卑

卑bēi牌pái

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

牌 puts 片, a flat piece, beside 卑, which gives the sound.

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