雅克 (Yǎ kè) — Jacques (name)

Definition

noun
Jacques (name)

Examples

  • 雅克。
    Zhè wèi shì wǒ de péng you Yǎ kè.
    This is my friend Jacques.
  • 雅克？
    Nǐ rèn shi Yǎ kè ma?
    Do you know Jacques?
  • 雅克。
    Yǎ kè Shì yì míng fǎ guó gōng chéng shī.
    Jacques is a French engineer.

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.

雅yǎ
克kè

The characters 雅 and 克 only spell the sounds of a foreign name and carry no meanings of their own.

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
隹隹zhuīa short-tailed bird
Sound part声符shēngfú
牙
牙yá雅yǎ
Same sound today

雅 pairs 隹, a short-tailed bird, with 牙 as its sound part; the bird was a rook/crow, and the sense was extended to refined.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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