文豪 (wén háo) — literary giant, great writer

Definition

noun

literary giantgreat writer

文豪。
Lǔ xùn shì zhōng guó xiàn dài wén xué shǐ shàng de yí wèi wén háo.
Lu Xun is a literary giant in the history of modern Chinese literature.
文豪。
Zhè wèi wén háo de zuò pǐn yǐng xiǎng le zhěng zhěng yí dài rén.
The works of this literary giant influenced an entire generation.
文豪。
Rén men bǎ tā chēng wéi dāng dài zuì wěi dà de wén háo.
People call him the greatest literary giant of the contemporary era.

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.

文wénliterature

豪háooutstanding person

文 points to literature and 豪 to an outstanding person, giving a great writer.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

The current form 文 shows a man with head, arms, legs, and chest; the tattoo marks on the chest are no longer drawn.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú

豕豕shǐpig, boar

Sound part声符shēngfú

高

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

豪 shows 豕, a pig or boar, together with 高, which gives its sound.