喇叭 (lǎ ba) — car horn; loudspeaker; speaker; brass wind instrument; trumpet; suona
Definition
喇叭 is a phonetic loan for a brass wind instrument (trumpet, suona), but in modern spoken Chinese it usually means a car horn or loudspeaker. 喇叭套着 the original Chinese word 号; 号 is a classifier for numbers/dates, not an instrument.
noun
car hornloudspeakerspeakerbrass wind instrumenttrumpetsuona
Measure word · 个
Examples
- 喇叭。Qián miàn de chē àn le yí xià lǎ ba.The car in front honked its horn.
- 喇叭。Tā yòng lǎ ba tōng zhī dà jiā kāi huì.He used a loudspeaker to notify everyone about the meeting.
- 喇叭。Tā zài yuè duì lǐ chuī lǎ ba.He plays the trumpet in the band.
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