盖洛普 (gài luò pǔ) — Gallup (polling company / opinion poll)

Definition

noun

Gallup (polling company / opinion poll)

盖洛普，。
gài luò pǔ Zuì jìn de yí xiàng diào chá xiǎn shì, rén men duì jīng jì de xìn xīn yǒu suǒ tí shēng.
A recent Gallup survey shows that people's confidence in the economy has improved.
盖洛普？。
Nǐ tīng shuō guò gài luò pǔ mín diào ma? tā jīng cháng yòng lái cè liáng gōng zhòng yì jiàn.
Have you heard of the Gallup poll? It's often used to measure public opinion.
，盖洛普。
Zhè jiā gōng sī shì měi guó de, jiào gài luò pǔ.
This company is from the US and is called Gallup.

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 盖洛普 simply spell the foreign name Gallup and carry no meaning of their own.

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 蓋; 盖 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

艸艸cǎograss

Sound part声符shēngfú

盍

盍hé蓋gài

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

The traditional form 蓋 pairs 艸, grass, with 盍 for sound. It was a thatch, and it took on cover meanings after 盍 was borrowed for “why not”.

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

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.

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).