威士忌 (wēi shì jì) — whiskey | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

whiskey

Measure word · 瓶

威士忌。
Tā xǐ huan hē wēi shì jì.
He likes to drink whiskey.
威士忌。
Zhè píng wēi shì jì shì cóng yīng guó dài lái de.
This bottle of whiskey was brought from the UK.
威士忌。
wēi shì jì Jiā bīng wèi dào gèng hǎo.
Whiskey tastes better with ice.

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.

The characters 威, 士 and 忌 only spell the foreign word for whiskey; they do not contribute separate meanings.

Sound-only characters

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

戌女威

威 is made by combining 戌 and 女.

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

The shape 士 comes from a simple drawing of a war axe. The character later came to mean a soldier, officer, or intellectual.

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

己心忌

Meaning part形符xíngfú

心心xīnheart

Sound part声符shēngfú

己

Same sound today

忌 combines 己, which gives the sound, with 心, the heart, as the part connected to the meaning.

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