埃克森 (āi kè sēn) — Exxon (oil company) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Exxon (oil company)

Examples

埃克森。
āi kè sēn Shì yì jiā dà xíng kuà guó shí yóu gōng sī.
Exxon is a large multinational oil company.
埃克森。
āi kè sēn Zài duō gè guó jiā dōu yǒu yè wù.
Exxon has operations in many countries.
埃克森。
Tā céng zài āi kè sēn gōng zuò guò shí nián.
He once worked at Exxon for ten years.

Origin

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.

The characters spell the foreign name Exxon; none carries its own meaning 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.

土矣埃

Meaning part形符xíngfú

土土tǔearth; soil

Sound part声符shēngfú

矣

矣yǐ埃āi

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

The 土 side of 埃 relates to earth or soil, while 矣 gives the sound.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

The form 森 stacks three tree-like shapes to show many trees in a forest.

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