农业局 (nóng yè jú) — agricultural bureau; bureau of agriculture

Definition

noun
agricultural bureaubureau of agriculture
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 农业局。
    Tā zài nóng yè jú gōng zuò le hěn duō nián.
    He has worked at the agricultural bureau for many years.
  • 农业局。
    nóng yè jú Zuì jìn fā bù le xīn de zhèng cè.
    The agricultural bureau recently issued new policies.
  • 农业局。
    Wǒ men míng tiān yào qù nóng yè jú kāi huì.
    We have to go to the agricultural bureau for a meeting tomorrow.

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.

农业agriculture
农nóngfarming业yèoccupation
偏正Modifier + head
局júbureau

农业 means agriculture and 局 means bureau, so the word names a bureau for agriculture.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 農; 农 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 農 comes from 林 (vegetation) and 辰 (a hoe), showing a hoe among vegetation to remove weeds; the simplified 农 is a later abbreviation.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 業; 业 is its simplified writing.

  • 丵丵zhuóchisel
  • 大大dàperson; big

The traditional 業 is explained as a picture of a beam from which bells and chimes hang, or as a person lifting that beam. The simplified 业 is a shorthand, not the original shape.

Open 业 →

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
尸尸shī
Sound part声符shēngfú
句
句jù局jú
Same sound today

The shape of 局 pairs 尸, a meaning part, with 句, a sound part.

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