华纳 (huá nà) — Warner (as in Warner Bros. or Warner Music Grou…

Definition

noun

Warner (as in Warner Bros. or Warner Music Group)

华纳。
Wǒ zuì xǐ huan de diàn yǐng gōng sī shì huá nà.
My favorite movie studio is Warner Bros.
华纳。
huá nà Chū pǐn de dòng huà piàn zǒng shì hěn jīng cǎi.
Animated films produced by Warner are always wonderful.
华纳。
Tā qiān yuē le huá nà yīn yuè jí tuán.
He signed with Warner Music Group.

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.

华纳 spells the foreign name Warner; the characters 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 華; 华 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 華 showed flowers on a plant, with stalk and leaves below. The simplified 华 is a later shorthand and not the original picture.

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 納; 纳 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

糸糸mìsilk, thin thread

Sound part声符shēngfú

内

Same sound today

The traditional form 納 has 糸 (silk, thin thread) and 内, which gives the sound; the simplified 纳 is a shorthand.

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