劳斯莱斯 (Láo sī lái sī) — Rolls-Royce (luxury car brand) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Rolls-Royce (luxury car brand)

Measure word · 辆

Examples

劳斯莱斯。
Tā kāi le yí liàng Láo sī lái sī.
He drives a Rolls-Royce.
劳斯莱斯。
Láo sī lái sī Shì fēi cháng yǒu míng de qì chē pǐn pái.
Rolls-Royce is a very famous car brand.
劳斯莱斯。
Zuó tiān wǒ zài jiē shàng kàn dào yí liàng Láo sī lái sī.
I saw a Rolls-Royce on the street yesterday.

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.

劳斯莱斯 only spells the foreign name Rolls-Royce; the characters carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 勞; 劳 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

𬡤

𬡤𬡤勞láo

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

The traditional form 勞 uses 力 for the meaning and 𬡤 for the sound; the simplified 劳 is a later shortened shape.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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