伽利略 (Jiā lì lüè) — Galileo (Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer an… | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Galileo (Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist)

Examples

伽利略。
Jiā lì lüè Shì wén yì fù xīng shí qī de wěi dà kē xué jiā.
Galileo was a great scientist of the Renaissance.
伽利略。
Zhōng xué kè běn lǐ xué guò Jiā lì lüè de shí yàn.
I studied Galileo's experiments in middle school textbooks.
伽利略。
Jiā lì lüè Yòng wàng yuǎn jìng fā xiàn le mù xīng de wèi xīng.
Galileo discovered Jupiter's moons with a telescope.

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.

The characters carry no meaning here; they spell the foreign name Galileo.

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

Sound part声符shēngfú

加

Same sound today

伽 is made of 人 (man) plus 加, and 加 is used for the sound.

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.

田各略

Meaning part形符xíngfú

田田tiánfield

Sound part声符shēngfú

各

各gè略lüè

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

略 combines 田 (field) with 各 for sound; the described idea is walking around a field to outline it.

Appears in

History Science (General)

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