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耶鲁 (Yē lǔ) — Yale (university or brand name)

Definition

noun
Yale (university or brand name)

Examples

  • 耶鲁。
    Tā bì yè yú Yē lǔ dà xué.
    He graduated from Yale University.
  • 耶鲁。
    Yē lǔ De xiào yuán fēi cháng piào liang.
    Yale's campus is very beautiful.
  • 耶鲁。
    Tā shēn qǐng le Yē lǔ de yán jiū shēng xiàng mù.
    She applied to Yale's graduate program.

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.

耶yē
鲁lǔ

The characters 耶 and 鲁 carry no meaning of their own; the word spells the name Yale.

Sound-only characters

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 魯; 鲁 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 魯 pairs 魚 (fish) and 口 (mouth) to show fish entering the mouth, giving the sense delicious/excellent. The simplified 鲁 is a later shorthand, not the original picture.

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