Song You Shen Posted October 17, 2005 at 02:45 AM Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 at 02:45 AM Could someone give me examples of these types of Chines words: - Harmonics - Transmissives - Borrowed Words I already have chinese words that are examples of pictographs, indicatives and ideatives, but I've had no luck finding harmonic, transmissive, or borrowed words. Any helps would be greatly appriciated. Youshen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted October 17, 2005 at 04:11 AM Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 at 04:11 AM A few borrowed words (Don't forget to return them when you have finished with them! Baby 啤啤 (Cantonese) 嬰兒 Bar 酒吧 Bowling 保齡球 滾木球 Brandy 白蘭地酒 Buffet 蒲飛 (Cantonese) 自助餐 Bus 巴士 公共汔車 Bye Bye 拜拜 再見 Calorie 卡路里 熱量單位 Cartoon 卡通 漫畫, 動畫 Cheese 芝士 奶酪 Cherry 車厘子(Cantonese) 櫻桃 Cocoa 可可 谷咕 (Cantonese) Coffee 咖啡 Chocolate 巧克力 朱古力 Curry 咖喱 Cyanide 山埃 (Cantonese) 化物 Disco 迪斯可 的士高 (Cantonese) Fashion 花樣 花臣(Cantonese) Film 菲林 (Cantonese) 膠卷 Gallon 加侖 Golf 高爾夫球 Guitar 吉他 結他 (Cantonese) Hamburger 漢堡 Jelly 者喱 果子凍 Mile 米 英里 Morphine 嗎啡 Motor 摩托 電動機 Ounce 盎斯 安士 Pudding 布丁 布甸 Salad 沙拉 Sandwich 三明治 三文治 Sardines 沙丁魚 沙甸魚 (Cantonese) Salmon 三文魚 (Cantonese) 鮭魚 Sauna 桑拿 (Cantonese) 蒸氣浴 Sofa 沙發 梳化 Strawberry 士多啤梨 (Cantonese) 草莓 Sundae 新地 水果奶油冰淇淋 Taxi 的士 (Cantonese) 出租车,(Mandarin), 計程車 (Taiwan) Tips 貼士 (Cantonese) 小費, 提示 Toast 多士 吐司, 烤麵包 Toffee 太妃糖 拖肥 (Cantonese) Vitamin 維他命 維生素 Vodka 伏特加酒 Whisky 威士忌酒 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mugi Posted October 17, 2005 at 04:29 AM Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 at 04:29 AM What do you mean by harmonic and transmissive words? Can you give us some examples in English? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Song You Shen Posted October 17, 2005 at 04:36 AM Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 at 04:36 AM - Harmonics: Words formed with the fact taken as the basis for pronunciation in simile and add other signs or words to form a new word. - Transmissives: Words that are under one heading and in the same idea are jointly receptive These are the definitions I have for them, sorry I couldn't be more helpful in this. I don't entirely understand them either. Youshen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnt Posted October 17, 2005 at 07:02 AM Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 at 07:02 AM - Harmonics 形聲 : ；「籃」字形旁是「竹」，表示它是竹製物品，聲旁是「監」 - Transmissives 轉注 : 「考」、「老」 - Borrowed Words 假借 , when you use one character for another , "自”本来是“鼻”的象形字 , not the kind of modern borrowed words! see here : http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AD%E4%B9%A6 It helps to know classic Chinese ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mugi Posted October 17, 2005 at 07:52 AM Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 at 07:52 AM Thanks nnt. So that's what this is all about, 六書!? Almost every character dictionary gives examples of characters belonging to each of the six categories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elina Posted October 17, 2005 at 11:40 AM Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 at 11:40 AM 转注 zhuǎnzhù： two pictures of 老和考 http://photo.163.com/openpic.php?user=elinasatter&pid=448320497&_dir=%2F18383869 http://photo.163.com/openpic.php?user=elinasatter&pid=448320168&_dir=%2F18383869 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Song You Shen Posted October 17, 2005 at 04:52 PM Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 at 04:52 PM Nnt, could you explain "transmissive" and "borrowed" words? I don't seem to understand these ones. Thanks. Youshen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnt Posted October 17, 2005 at 05:51 PM Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 at 05:51 PM From : http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbchilang-u.html Zhŭanzhù 轉注, sometimes translated "figurative extension" [of meaning] refers to characters formed by modifying the shape of a character to produce another one of a related meaning. Thus it is said that "corpse" shī 尸 is derived from "person" rén 人. Jiăjiè 假借 refers to characters borrowed from others of similar pronunciation. Thus wàn 萬 originally referred to the scorpion, but was borrowed by the homonymous word meaning ten thousand which is often simplified to 万, apparently originally a surname. Simplified characters has also used 假借 (后 "empress" has been borrowed to simplify 後 "after, afterwards, then, etc...") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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