大猩猩 (dà xīng xīng) — gorilla | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

gorilla

Measure word · 只

Examples

大猩猩。
Wǒ zài dòng wù yuán lǐ kàn dào le jǐ zhī dà xīng xīng.
I saw several gorillas at the zoo.
大猩猩。
dà xīng xīng Shì tǐ xíng zuì dà de líng zhǎng lèi dòng wù.
Gorillas are the largest primates.
大猩猩。
Xióng xìng dà xīng xīng de tǐ zhòng kě yǐ dá dào liǎng bǎi gōng jīn.
The weight of a male gorilla can reach 200 kilograms.

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.

猩猩ape

猩xīng猩xīng

重叠Reduplication

大 means big, 猩猩 names the ape, so the whole refers to the large kind of ape.

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.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Appears in

Animals & Mammals

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