洛克希德 (luò kè xī dé) — Lockheed (aerospace and defense company)

Definition

noun
Lockheed (aerospace and defense company)

Examples

  • 洛克希德。
    luò kè xī dé Shì yì jiā měi guó gōng sī.
    Lockheed is an American company.
  • 洛克希德。
    Tā céng zài luò kè xī dé gōng zuò guò.
    He once worked at Lockheed.
  • 洛克希德。
    luò kè xī dé Shēng chǎn jūn yòng fēi jī.
    Lockheed produces military aircraft.

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.

洛luò
克kè
希xī
德dé

The characters spell the foreign name Lockheed and carry no meanings of their own here.

Sound-only characters

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú
水水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
各
各gè洛Luò
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

洛 shows 水 (water) and 各, and 各 supplies the sound.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

希 is made from 爻 and 巾, which means cloth. How those parts connect to “hope” is not explained.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú
彳彳chìroad
Sound part声符shēngfú
惪
惪dé德dé
Same sound today

德 combines 彳, a road, with 惪, a component meaning virtue that also supplies the sound.

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