福特 (Fú tè) — Ford (automobile brand) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Ford (automobile brand)

Examples

福特。
Wǒ bà ba kāi le yí liàng Fú tè qì chē.
My dad drives a Ford car.
福特。
Fú tè Shì hěn yǒu míng de měi guó qì chē gōng sī.
Ford is a very famous American car company.
福特。
Zhè liàng Fú tè yǐ jīng kāi le shí nián le.
This Ford has been driven for ten years already.

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 carry no meaning of their own here; together they spell the foreign name Ford.

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

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.

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

牛寺特

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

寺

寺sì特tè

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

The shape combines 牛 (ox) with 寺, which gives the pronunciation; it originally meant a large bull.

Appears in

Business & Commerce Vehicles

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