雷达 (léi dá) — radar | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

radar

Measure word · 个

Examples

雷达。
Jī chǎng yòng léi dá bāng zhù fēi jī jiàng luò.
The airport uses radar to help planes land.
雷达。
Zhè sōu chuán ān zhuāng le xīn léi dá.
This ship has been equipped with new radar.
雷达。
léi dá Kě yǐ bāng zhù wǒ men zhǎo dào diū shī de chuán zhī.
Radar can help us find lost ships.

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 雷 and 达 carry no meaning of their own here; the word spells the foreign term for radar.

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

雨雨yǔrain

Sound part声符shēngfú

畾

畾léi雷léi

Same sound today

The top 雨 (rain) points to the meaning, and the bottom 畾 gives the sound.

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

辶大达

Meaning part形符xíngfú

辶Written in full as辵chuò

Sound part声符shēngfú

大

大dà达dá

Same sound today

This form 达 pairs 辶 (written in full as 辵) with 大 as a sound component.

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