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业主 (yè zhǔ) — property owner, proprietor (especially of real estate or a business)

Definition

noun
property ownerproprietor (especially of real estate or a business)
Measure word · 位

Examples

  • 业主。
    Xiǎo qū yè zhǔ dà huì xià zhōu èr zhào kāi.
    The homeowners' meeting of the community will be held next Tuesday.
  • 业主。
    Zhè wèi yè zhǔ jué dìng bǎ fáng zi mài diào le.
    This property owner has decided to sell the house.
  • 业主，。
    Zuò wéi cān tīng de yè zhǔ, tā měi tiān dōu yào jiǎn chá shí cái xīn xiān bù xīn xiān.
    As the owner of the restaurant, he checks the freshness of ingredients every day.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

业yèproperty
主zhǔowner

业 property and 主 owner combine to mean proprietor.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 業; 业 is its simplified writing.

  • 丵丵zhuóchisel
  • 大大dàperson; big

The traditional 業 is explained as a picture of a beam from which bells and chimes hang, or as a person lifting that beam. The simplified 业 is a shorthand, not the original shape.

Open 业 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The old forms that became 主 showed a lamp or torch with a flame at the top; other forms showed wood on fire or a spirit tablet.

Open 主 →
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