梅奥 (méi ào) — Mayo (as in Mayo Clinic)

Definition

noun

Mayo (as in Mayo Clinic)

梅奥。
Tā qù nián zài méi ào zuò le shǒu shù.
He had surgery at Mayo last year.
梅奥。
méi ào Shì yì jiā shì jiè zhù míng de yī liáo jī gòu.
Mayo is a world-famous medical institution.
梅奥。
Wǒ tīng shuō méi ào de yī shēng fēi cháng zhuān yè.
I heard that the doctors at Mayo are very professional.

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.

The characters 梅 and 奥 only spell the foreign name Mayo; they do not carry separate meanings here.

Sound-only characters

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

木每梅

Meaning part形符xíngfú

木木mùtree

Sound part声符shēngfú

每

Same sound today

梅 is built from 木 (tree) and 每, which gives the sound; it is used for the plum tree.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.