中型 (zhōng xíng) — medium-sized; medium | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

adjective

medium-sizedmedium

Examples

中型，。
Zhè shì yì jiā zhōng xíng qǐ yè, yuán gōng yǒu wǔ bǎi rén.
This is a medium-sized enterprise with five hundred employees.
中型，。
Tā mǎi le yí liàng zhōng xíng jiào chē, jì bú tài dà yě bú tài xiǎo.
He bought a medium-sized car that is neither too big nor too small.
中型。
zhōng xíng Chéng shì de shēng huó jié zòu bǐ dà chéng shì màn yì xiē.
The pace of life in medium-sized cities is slower than in big cities.

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.

中zhōngmiddle

The 中 sense of middle with 型 gives a medium-sized classification.

Characters in this word

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

The original picture showed a flagpole with a drum in the middle, set up in the center of a field.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

刑土型

Meaning part形符xíngfú

土土tǔearth

Sound part声符shēngfú

刑

刑xíng型xíng

Same sound today

型 pairs 土 (earth) with 刑, which supplies the sound; the shape shows an earthen mold, hence form or pattern.

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