丰田 (Fēng tián) — Toyota

Definition

noun
Toyota

Examples

  • 丰田。
    Wǒ zuì jìn mǎi le yí liàng Fēng tián qì chē.
    I recently bought a Toyota car.
  • 丰田。
    Fēng tián Shì quán qiú zuì dà de qì chē zhì zào shāng zhī yī.
    Toyota is one of the largest automakers in the world.
  • 丰田,。
    Wǒ de péng you kāi le yí liàng Fēng tián, xìng néng fēi cháng hǎo.
    My friend drives a Toyota, and its performance is very good.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

丰fēngabundant

丰 means abundant and 田 means field, together forming the name Toyota.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 豐; 丰 is its simplified writing.

For the traditional form 豐, the drawing shows a pot full of plants above another pot. The simplified 丰 is the form you are learning.

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

田 looks like a field divided into four sections.

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