住校 (zhù xiào) — to live on campus; to board at school

Definition

住校 means living on campus as a boarding student. The verb splits as 住 + 校, usually taking a duration like 住了三年校.

verb
to live on campusto board at school

Examples

  • 住校。
    Tā dà xué sì nián dōu zhù xiào.
    He lived on campus for all four years of college.
  • ，。
    Tā zhù le sān nián xiào, hòu lái bān chū qù le.
    He lived on campus for three years, then moved out.
  • 住校。
    Hěn duō xué shēng xǐ huan zhù xiào.
    Many students like living on campus.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

住zhùlive
校xiàoschool

住 means live, and 校 is school, giving the meaning of living at school.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
亻Written in full as人rén
Sound part声符shēngfú
主
主zhǔ住zhù
Same sound today

住 pairs 亻, the person radical (written fully as 人), with 主, which supplies the sound.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú
木木mùtree
Sound part声符shēngfú
交
交jiāo校jiào
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

校 is built from 木 (tree) on the left and 交 on the right, which supplies the sound.

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