休养所 (xiū yǎng suǒ) — sanatorium; rest home (a facility where people…

Definition

noun

sanatoriumrest home (a facility where people go to recover from illness or to rest and recuperate)

Measure word · 个

休养所。
Yī shēng jiàn yì tā qù xiū yǎng suǒ xiū yǎng yí duàn shí jiān.
The doctor advised him to go to a sanatorium and rest for a while.
休养所，。
Zhè ge xiū yǎng suǒ jiàn zài shān jiǎo xià, kōng qì fēi cháng xīn xiān.
This rest home is built at the foot of the mountain, where the air is very fresh.
休养所。
Tā tuì xiū hòu zài yí gè xiū yǎng suǒ dāng zhì yuàn zhě.
After retirement, she volunteered at a sanatorium.

Derived word

构词法gòucífǎ

后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

休养recuperate

联合Side by side

休养 means recuperate; 所 points to a place, so the word names a place for recuperating.

Characters in this word

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

休 pairs 人 (man) with 木 (tree), showing a person leaning against a tree to rest.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 養; 养 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 養 uses 羊 as a sound part and 食 as a meaning part.

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

戶斤所

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

戶

戶hù所suǒ

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

所 pairs 斤, an axe, with 戶, which gives the sound hù; the old meaning was the sound of logging.