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会员卡 (huì yuán kǎ) — membership card

Definition

noun
membership card
Measure word · 张

Examples

  • 会员卡。
    Qǐng chū shì nín de huì yuán kǎ.
    Please show your membership card.
  • 会员卡。
    Bàn huì yuán kǎ xū yào tián xiě gè rén xìn xī.
    To apply for a membership card, you need to fill in personal information.
  • 会员卡。
    Píng huì yuán kǎ kě yǐ xiǎng shòu bā zhé yōu huì.
    With the membership card, you can enjoy a 20% discount.

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.

会员
会huìassociation员yuánmember
偏正Modifier + head
卡kǎcard

会员 marks a member of an association, and 卡 is the card for that member.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 會; 会 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
合合héto meet
Sound part声符shēngfú
𡆧
𡆧𡆧會huì
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

Traditional 會 pairs 合 (to meet) with 𡆧, an original form for ironware, to give the sound. The simplified 会 is a later shorthand, so its parts are not the original parts.

Open 会 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 員; 员 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
鼎鼎dǐngding
Sound part声符shēngfú
〇
〇líng員yuán
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In the traditional form 員, 〇 supplies the sound and 鼎 supplies the meaning; the simplified 员 is a shortened form.

Open 员 →

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

卡 is made from 上 (up) and 下 (down), with their horizontal lines fused, showing something squeezed between above and below.

Open 卡 →
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