马克思 (Mǎ kè sī) — Karl Marx (1818–1883)

Definition

noun

Karl Marx (1818–1883)

马克思。
Mǎ kè sī De zhù zuò duì shì jiè lì shǐ yǐng xiǎng hěn dà.
Marx's writings have had a great influence on world history.
马克思《》。
Wǒ dú guò Mǎ kè sī de 《zī běn lùn》.
I have read Marx's Das Kapital.
马克思。
Mǎ kè sī Shì guó jì gōng rén yùn dòng de wěi dà dǎo shī.
Marx is the great teacher of the international workers' movement.

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 马克思 spell a foreign name and carry no meanings 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 馬; 马 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 馬 shows a horse with its head facing left, a flowing mane, and two legs standing vertically.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

心心xīnheart

Sound part声符shēngfú

囟

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In 思, 心 (heart) points to thinking, while the top part is a changed form of 囟, which supplied the sound.

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