朋克 (péng kè) — punk (music, subculture) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

punk (music, subculture)

Examples

朋克。
Tā xǐ huan tīng péng kè yīn yuè.
He likes listening to punk music.
朋克。
péng kè Yuè duì de zhǔ chàng chuān zhuó hěn tè bié.
The lead singer of the punk band dresses very distinctively.
朋克。
Zhè jiā diàn zhuān mén mài péng kè fēng gé de yī fu.
This shop specializes in punk-style clothing.

Origin

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 朋克 carry no meaning of their own here; it transliterates punk.

Sound-only characters

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

The old form of 朋 showed two strings of cowries side by side; the modern double shape came from this picture.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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