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新飞 (xīn fēi) — Xinfei (Chinese brand of home appliances)

Definition

新飞 (Xīnfēi) is a well-known Chinese home-appliance brand, especially recognized for refrigerators and air conditioners. Treat it like a proper brand name: 品牌, not a common noun.

noun
Xinfei (Chinese brand of home appliances)

Examples

  • 新飞。
    Wǒ jiā mǎi le yì tái xīn fēi bīng xiāng.
    My family bought a Xinfei refrigerator.
  • 新飞。
    xīn fēi Shì zhōng guó hěn yǒu míng de jiā diàn pǐn pái.
    Xinfei is a well-known home appliance brand in China.
  • 新飞。
    Wǒ xiǎo shí hou jiā lǐ yòng de jiù shì xīn fēi kōng tiáo.
    When I was little, my family used an Xinfei air conditioner.

Origin

Characters in this word

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

假借jiǎjièLater borrowed for its sound alone — the picture has nothing to do with today’s meaning.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
斤斤jīn
Sound part声符shēngfú
辛
辛xīn新xīn
Same sound today

The shape originally paired 斤, for chopping wood, with 辛 for sound. It was borrowed for its sound to write 新, so the chopping-wood parts are unrelated to 'new'.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 飛; 飞 is its simplified writing.

For 飞, the traditional form 飛 pictures a bird flying upwards.

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