大宇 (dà yǔ) — Daewoo (Korean conglomerate)

Definition

noun

Daewoo (Korean conglomerate)

Easily confused

大宇。
Wǒ mǎi le yí liàng dà yǔ pái qì chē.
I bought a Daewoo-brand car.
大宇。
dà yǔ Céng shì hán guó zuì dà de qǐ yè jí tuán zhī yī.
Daewoo was once one of the largest conglomerates in South Korea.
大宇。
Tā zài dà yǔ jí tuán gōng zuò le shí nián.
He worked at the Daewoo Group for ten years.

Characters in this word

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

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

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

宀于宇

Meaning part形符xíngfú

宀宀miánhouse

Sound part声符shēngfú

于

Same sound today

宇 pairs 宀, a roof-like shape connected with house parts such as eaves, with 于, which gives the pronunciation.