法郎 (fǎ láng) — franc (currency) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

franc (currency)

Measure word · 个

法郎。
Zhè ge shǒu biǎo de jià qián shì wǔ bǎi fǎ láng.
The price of this watch is five hundred francs.
法郎。
Tā qù nián qù ruì shì de shí hou huàn le sān qiān fǎ láng.
He exchanged three thousand francs when he went to Switzerland last year.
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Yì bǎi nián qián, fǎ guó rén hái yòng fǎ láng mǎi dōng xī.
A hundred years ago, French people still used francs to buy things.

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.

法郎 spells the foreign name for a franc; the characters carry no meaning of their own 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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

氵Written in full as水shuǐwater

廌廌zhìa type of antelope or caprid

Sound part声符shēngfú

盍

盍hé法fǎ

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

法's older form combined 氵 (water) and 廌 (a type of antelope or caprid), with 盍 as a sound part; later 廌 was dropped.

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

邑邑yìcounty; town

Sound part声符shēngfú

良

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

郎 combines 良, which gives the sound, with 邑, meaning county or town.

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