品脱 (pǐn tuō) — pint (unit of measurement)

Definition

noun

pint (unit of measurement)

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Wǒ xiǎng yào yī pǐn tuō pí jiǔ.
I'd like a pint of beer.
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Zhè ge bēi zi de róng liàng shì yī pǐn tuō.
This cup has a capacity of one pint.
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Yī pǐn tuō niú nǎi zú gòu zuò dàn gāo le.
A pint of milk is enough to make a cake.

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.

品脱 spells a foreign sound for pint; the characters carry no meaning here.

Sound-only characters

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

品 repeats the same simple shape three times, representing various objects.

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 脫; 脱 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

⺼Written in full as肉ròu

Sound part声符shēngfú

兌

兌duì脫tuō

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

The traditional form 脫 puts ⺼ (meat) beside 兌, which gives the sound; the simplified 脱 is a shorthand, and its parts are not the historical pieces.

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