多普勒 (Duō pǔ lè) — Doppler (surname of Austrian physicist Christia…

Definition

noun

Doppler (surname of Austrian physicist Christian Johann Doppler)

多普勒。
Duō pǔ lè Xiào yìng shì yì zhǒng wù lǐ xiàn xiàng.
The Doppler effect is a physical phenomenon.
多普勒。
Duō pǔ lè Léi dá kě yǐ cè liáng wù tǐ de sù dù.
Doppler radar can measure the speed of objects.
多普勒。
Zhè wèi kē xué jiā jiù shì Duō pǔ lè.
This scientist is Doppler.

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.

普勒

The characters 多普勒 only spell the foreign name Doppler and carry no meaning of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

多 originally showed two pieces of meat placed together; the repeated meat shape gives the sense of many.

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

並日普

普 is made of 日 (sun) and 並 (side by side).

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

革力勒

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

力

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

勒 pairs 革 (leather), because bridles are made of leather, with 力, which gives the sound.

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