保险费用 (bǎo xiǎn fèi yòng) — insurance premium

Definition

noun
insurance premium

Examples

  • 保险费用。
    Zhè ge gōng sī de bǎo xiǎn fèi yòng hěn gāo.
    This company's insurance premium is very high.
  • 保险费用。
    Nǐ xū yào zhī fù yì nián de bǎo xiǎn fèi yòng.
    You need to pay the insurance premium for one year.
  • 保险费用。
    Qì chē bǎo xiǎn fèi yòng měi nián dōu zài shàng zhǎng.
    Car insurance costs are rising every year.

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.

保险insurance
保bǎoprotect险xiǎnrisk
动宾Verb + object
费用expenses
费fèiexpense用yòngcost
联合Side by side

保险费用 joins 保险 insurance and 费用 expenses, giving the cost of insurance.

Characters in this word

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

保 originally showed a person 人 carrying a child 子 on their back, which led to the sense of protecting.

Open 保 →

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 險; 险 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
阝Written in full as阜fù
Sound part声符shēngfú
僉
僉qiān險
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 險 pairs 阝, written in full as 阜, with 僉, which gives the sound; the simplified 险 is a shorthand.

Open 险 →

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 費; 费 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
貝貝bèicowry
Sound part声符shēngfú
弗
弗fú費fèi
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 費 has 貝, a cowry shell, and 弗, which gives a sound; the simplified 费 is a shorthand, and its parts are not the original pieces.

Open 费 →

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

用 was formed by adding a handle to an earlier form.

Open 用 →

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