麦克风 (mài kè fēng) — microphone | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

Microphone, a phonetic loan from English. 同义词话筒 is more colloquial and also means a phone receiver; 麦克风 usually refers only to a mic.

noun

microphone

Measure word · 个

麦克风。
Wǒ xū yào yí gè mài kè fēng cái néng lù yīn.
I need a microphone to record.
麦克风。
mài kè fēng De yīn zhì fēi cháng hǎo.
The sound quality of the microphone is very good.
麦克风。
Tā ná zhe mài kè fēng chàng le yì shǒu gē.
He held the microphone and sang a song.

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 here; it spells the foreign sound for microphone.

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 麥; 麦 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

夊夊suīfootprint pointing down; to walk slowly

Sound part声符shēngfú

來

來lái麥mài

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

For 麦, the traditional form 麥 pairs 來, which gives the sound and once meant wheat, with 夊, a footprint pointing down for slow walking.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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