皮诺切特 (Pí nuò qiē tè) — Pinochet (Augusto Pinochet, former Chilean dictator)

Definition

noun
Pinochet (Augusto Pinochet, former Chilean dictator)

Examples

  • 皮诺切特。
    Pí nuò qiē tè Zài zhì lì zhí zhèng le jiāng jìn èr shí nián.
    Pinochet ruled Chile for nearly 20 years.
  • 皮诺切特。
    Xǔ duō rén duì Pí nuò qiē tè shí qī de zhèng cè jì yì yóu xīn.
    Many people still have fresh memories of the policies of Pinochet's era.
  • 皮诺切特。
    Nà běn shū xiáng xì jiè shào le Pí nuò qiē tè zhèng quán de lì shǐ.
    That book details the history of the Pinochet regime.

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.

皮pí
诺nuò
切qiè
特tè

皮诺切特 spells a foreign personal name; the characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

皮 shows a hand pulling fur off an animal pelt, with the pelt drawn at the upper left.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 諾; 诺 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
言言yánword, speak
Sound part声符shēngfú
若
若ruò諾nuò
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 諾 pairs 言, meaning word or speak, with 若 as a sound part, for an affirmative answer. The simplified 诺 is a later shorthand.

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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
刀刀dāoknife
Sound part声符shēngfú
七
七qī切qiè
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In 切, the 刀 (knife) part is joined to 七, which gives the sound.

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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
牛牛niúox
Sound part声符shēngfú
寺
寺sì特tè
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The shape combines 牛 (ox) with 寺, which gives the pronunciation; it originally meant a large bull.

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