Abstract
The emergence of lettered words in contemporary Chinese is a new phenomenon of word formation. This paper offers an explanation of this phenomenon in the following two aspects: 1) The foreignness of their written form and pronunciation does not stop the lettered words from becoming an integral part of the Chinese lexicon; 2) The current status quo of the actual use of Chinese prove that such expressions as CD, VCD, MTV and WTO have already found their way to the modern Chinese lexicon.
| Keywords: | lettered words; written form; pronunciation; the current status quo of the actual use of Chinese |
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