卡夫 (kǎ fū) — Kraft (US food company) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Kraft (US food company)

卡夫。
Wǒ zuó tiān mǎi le yì hé kǎ fū de nǎi lào.
I bought a box of Kraft cheese yesterday.
卡夫，。
kǎ fū Shì měi guó de gōng sī, zài zhōng guó yě hěn liú xíng.
Kraft is an American company, also very popular in China.
卡夫？
Nǐ zhī dào kǎ fū de bǐng gàn má?
Do you know Kraft cookies?

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

卡 is made from 上 (up) and 下 (down), with their horizontal lines fused, showing something squeezed between above and below.

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

假借jiǎjièLater borrowed for its sound alone — the picture has nothing to do with today’s meaning.

夫 originally drew a man. It was borrowed purely for its sound to write a pronoun, so the picture and the pronoun meaning are unrelated.

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