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沙龙 (shā lóng) — (noun) salon (a social gathering of intellectuals, artists, etc.); (noun) salon (a beauty salon or hair salon)

Definition

Loanword from French "salon." Used for both an intellectual/artistic gathering (e.g. a French literary 沙龙) and a beauty or hair salon — the context disambiguates.

noun
salon (a social gathering of intellectuals, artists, etc.)salon (a beauty salon or hair salon)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 沙龙。
    Zhè jiā shā lóng de měi róng shī jì shù hěn hǎo.
    The beautician at this salon has great skills.
  • 沙龙。
    Tā měi gè zhōu mò dōu qù cān jiā fǎ yǔ shā lóng.
    He goes to the French salon every weekend.
  • 沙龙。
    Zhè ge shā lóng zhī jiē dài huì yuán.
    This salon only serves members.

Origin

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.

沙shā
龙lóng

The hanzi in 沙龙 spell a foreign word for salon and carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

沙 puts 少 (dots) beside 水 (water), showing sand on a shoreline.

Open 沙 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 龍; 龙 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 龍 originally drew a sacred creature with a large mouth and a snake-like body; the simplified 龙 is the form written here.

Open 龙 →
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