福林 (fú lín) — forint (Hungarian currency)

Definition

noun
forint (Hungarian currency)

Examples

  • 福林。
    Wǒ huàn le yì xiē fú lín.
    I exchanged some forints.
  • 福林。
    Tā yòng fú lín mǎi le zhè zhāng huà.
    He bought this painting with forints.
  • 福林。
    Zhè ge jià gé shì sān bǎi fú lín.
    This price is 300 forints.

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.

福fú
林lín

福林 spells the sound of the foreign word forint; the characters 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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
示示shì
Sound part声符shēngfú
畐
畐fú福fú
Same sound today

福 combines 示 and 畐, with 示 carrying the meaning and 畐 the sound.

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

林 is made of two 木 (tree) placed side by side, showing many trees together, hence a forest.

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