供应商 (gōng yìng shāng) — supplier | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

supplier

Measure word · 家

Examples

供应商。
Wǒ men gōng sī xū yào xún zhǎo xīn de gōng yìng shāng.
Our company needs to find new suppliers.
供应商。
Zhè jiā gōng yìng shāng de chǎn pǐn zhì liàng hěn hǎo.
This supplier's product quality is very good.
供应商。
Tā men hé jǐ jiā guó nèi gōng yìng shāng jiàn lì le cháng qī hé zuò guān xì.
They have established long-term cooperation with several domestic suppliers.

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.

供应supply

供gòngsupply应yìngrespond

联合Coordinate

商shāngmerchant

供应 supply and 商 merchant combine to mean supplier.

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.

亻共供

Meaning part形符xíngfú

亻Written in full as人rénperson

Sound part声符shēngfú

共

共gòng供gòng

Same sound today

供 is made of 亻, a person, and 共, which gives the sound gòng.

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 應; 应 is its simplified writing.

䧹心應

Meaning part形符xíngfú

心心xīnheart

Sound part声符shēngfú

䧹

䧹䧹應yìng

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

The traditional form 應 pairs 心 (heart) with 䧹 as a sound part; the simplified 应 is a later shorthand and its parts are not the original components.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Appears in

Business & Commerce

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