肯特 (Kěn tè) — Kent (county or place name in England)

Definition

noun

Kent (county or place name in England)

肯特。
Wǒ míng nián dǎ suàn qù Kěn tè liú xué.
I plan to go study in Kent next year.
肯特。
Kěn tè Yǐ yōu měi de xiāng cūn fēng guāng wén míng.
Kent is famous for its beautiful countryside scenery.
肯特。
Tā chū shēng zài Kěn tè de yí gè xiǎo zhèn shàng.
She was born in a small town in Kent.

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 肯 and 特 are used only to spell the English county name; they 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.

肯 is described as showing 冎 (bone) and 肉 (meat), meaning meat attached to the bone.

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

牛寺特

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

寺

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.