哈龙 (hā lóng) — halon (a fire-extinguishing agent)

Definition

noun

halon (a fire-extinguishing agent)

哈龙。
Zhè zhǒng hā lóng miè huǒ qì yǐ jīng bú zài shǐ yòng le.
This type of halon fire extinguisher is no longer used.
哈龙。
Gōng chǎng lǐ ān zhuāng le hā lóng miè huǒ xì tǒng.
The factory has installed a halon fire suppression system.
，哈龙。
Yóu yú huán bǎo yuán yīn, hā lóng bèi zhú bù táo tài.
Due to environmental reasons, halon is being phased out.

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.

哈 and 龙 spell the foreign word halon; they have no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

口合哈

Meaning part形符xíngfú

口口kǒumouth

Sound part声符shēngfú

合

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

哈 uses 口 (mouth) to show a mouth-related idea, and 合 as a sound part. The shape of 合 may look like two open mouths, but that is likely by chance.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 龍; 龙 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 龍 originally drew a sacred creature with a large mouth and a snake-like body; the simplified 龙 is the form written here.

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