吉普

Jí pǔ · HSK 7

jeep

吉普 — jeep

🚙 吉普 jí pǔ sounds like Jeep — a direct loanword from the English brand name

吉普 is a phonetic borrowing: jí + pǔ approximates the sound of Jeep. 吉 alone means lucky/auspicious and 普 means general/universal, but here the characters are picked for sound, not meaning.

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