飞利浦 (fēi lì pǔ) — Philips (company) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Philips (company)

Examples

飞利浦。
Wǒ mǎi le yì tái fēi lì pǔ de diàn shì.
I bought a Philips TV.
飞利浦。
fēi lì pǔ Shì hé lán zhù míng de diàn qì gōng sī.
Philips is a famous Dutch electronics company.
飞利浦。
Mā ma yòng fēi lì pǔ de diàn dòng yá shuā shuā yá.
Mom uses a Philips electric toothbrush to brush her teeth.

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.

飞利浦 spells a foreign company name; 飞, 利, 浦 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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 飛; 飞 is its simplified writing.

For 飞, the traditional form 飛 pictures a bird flying upwards.

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

禾禾hégrain
刀刀dāoknife

利 combines 禾 (grain) and 刀 (knife), showing a knife used to cut grain.

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

氵甫浦

Meaning part形符xíngfú

氵Written in full as水shuǐwater; river

Sound part声符shēngfú

甫

甫fǔ浦pǔ

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

浦 combines 氵 (water) with 甫, which provides the sound.

Appears in

Business & Commerce

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