戴森

Dàisēn

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Meanings

1 Dyson (British surname; most commonly the appliance brand or physicist Freeman Dyson)
2 transliteration of foreign names ending in -dyson / -disen

Characters

to wear / surname Dai (transliteration syllable dy-)

forest (transliteration syllable -son)

Examples

我买了一台戴森吸尘器。

Wǒ mǎi le yì tái Dàisēn xīchénqì.

I bought a Dyson vacuum cleaner.

弗里曼·戴森是著名的物理学家。

Fúlǐmàn · Dàisēn shì zhùmíng de wùlǐxuéjiā.

Freeman Dyson is a famous physicist.

Tips

culture

In modern China, 戴森 first means the British appliance brand Dyson — vacuums, hairdryers, fans — a status symbol since the late 2010s. Second meaning: theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson (1923-2020), inventor of the 'Dyson sphere' (戴森球, Dàisēn qiú) thought experiment for harvesting a star's full energy output.

Stroke Order

戴 dài

森 sēn