贝卡 (bèi kǎ) — (proper noun) Becca (or Beca, a transliteration…

Definition

noun

(proper noun) Becca (or Beca, a transliteration of a foreign name)

贝卡。
bèi kǎ Shì wǒ de dà xué tóng xué.
Becca is my college classmate.
贝卡。
Zuó tiān wǒ shōu dào le bèi kǎ de yóu jiàn.
I received an email from Becca yesterday.
贝卡。
bèi kǎ Hěn xǐ huan zhōng guó cài.
Becca really likes Chinese food.

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 贝 and 卡 carry no meaning of their own here; together they spell the foreign name Becca.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 貝; 贝 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 貝, not the simplified 贝, shows a cowrie shell used as money in ancient China.

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

卡 is made from 上 (up) and 下 (down), with their horizontal lines fused, showing something squeezed between above and below.