强生 (qiáng shēng) — Johnson (surname); Johnson & Johnson (company)

Definition

noun

Johnson (surname)Johnson & Johnson (company)

强生。
Wǒ yǒu yí wèi měi guó tóng xué xìng qiáng shēng.
I have an American classmate whose surname is Johnson.
强生。
qiáng shēng Shēng chǎn hěn duō jiàn kāng hé yī liáo chǎn pǐn.
Johnson & Johnson produces many health and medical products.
强生。
Tā zài qiáng shēng de yán fā bù mén gōng zuò.
He works in the R&D department at Johnson & Johnson.

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.

强 and 生 carry no meaning of their own here; they spell the foreign name Johnson.

Sound-only characters

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 強; 强 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 強 pairs an insect component with a sound component; this explains 強, not the simplified 强.

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

生 shows 屮 (a bud) above 一 (the ground), drawing a sprout coming up from the earth.

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