穆迪 (mù dí) — Moody's (financial ratings company)

Definition

noun
Moody's (financial ratings company)

Examples

  • 穆迪。
    mù dí Shì yì jiā zhù míng de xìn yòng píng jí jī gòu.
    Moody's is a famous credit rating agency.
  • 穆迪。
    Hěn duō tóu zī zhě cān kǎo mù dí de píng jí lái zuò jué dìng.
    Many investors refer to Moody's ratings to make decisions.
  • 穆迪。
    mù dí Zuì jìn tí gāo le zhè ge guó jiā de xìn yòng děng jí.
    Moody's recently upgraded the credit rating of this country.

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 穆迪 spell the foreign company name and carry no meaning 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
禾禾hégrain
Sound part声符shēngfú
㣎
㣎㣎穆mù
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

穆 is built from 禾, grain, with 㣎 added for its sound, giving a picture of standing grain.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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