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诺基亚 (Nuò jī yà) — Nokia (company name)

Definition

noun
Nokia (company name)

Examples

  • 诺基亚。
    Wǒ bà ba yǐ qián yòng de shǒu jī jiù shì Nuò jī yà.
    The phone my dad used to use was Nokia.
  • 诺基亚。
    Nuò jī yà Céng jīng shì quán qiú zuì dà de shǒu jī zhì zào shāng.
    Nokia was once the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer.
  • 诺基亚？
    Nǐ hái jì de Nuò jī yà de jīng diǎn líng shēng ma?
    Do you still remember Nokia's classic ringtone?

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.

诺nuò
基jī
亚yà

The characters only spell the foreign name Nokia; none carries its own meaning 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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 諾; 诺 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
言言yánword, speak
Sound part声符shēngfú
若
若ruò諾nuò
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 諾 pairs 言, meaning word or speak, with 若 as a sound part, for an affirmative answer. The simplified 诺 is a later shorthand.

Open 诺 →

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
土土tǔearth
Sound part声符shēngfú
其
其qí基jī
Same sound today

The lower 土 means earth, and the upper 其 gives the sound; together they form the idea of a foundation of earth.

Open 基 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 亞; 亚 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 亞 likely shows an overhead view of a construction, perhaps a 亞-shaped tomb. Its later simplified form 亚 is just a shorthand.

Open 亚 →
Appears in
Business & CommercePhones & Telecom

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