奥斯卡 (Aò sī kǎ) — Oscar (the Academy Award, a film award); Oscar…

Definition

noun

Oscar (the Academy Award, a film award)Oscar (a person's name)

Measure word · 届

奥斯卡。
Tā huò dé le jīn nián de Aò sī kǎ zuì jiā nán zhǔ jué jiǎng.
He won this year's Oscar for Best Actor.
92奥斯卡。
Zhè shì dì 92 jiè Aò sī kǎ bān jiǎng diǎn lǐ.
This is the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony.
奥斯卡，。
Wǒ de tóng xué jiào Aò sī kǎ, tā lái zì měi guó.
My classmate is called Oscar, and he's from America.

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.

奥, 斯, and 卡 only spell the foreign name Oscar; the characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

卡 is made from 上 (up) and 下 (down), with their horizontal lines fused, showing something squeezed between above and below.

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