出勤率 (chū qín lǜ) — attendance rate

Definition

noun
attendance rate

Examples

  • 出勤率。
    Wǒ men gōng sī de chū qín lǜ hěn gāo.
    Our company's attendance rate is very high.
  • 出勤率。
    Zhè ge yuè xué shēng de chū qín lǜ dá dào le bǎi fēn zhī jiǔ shí bā.
    This month the student attendance rate reached 98%.
  • 出勤率。
    chū qín lǜ Shì kǎo hé yuán gōng de zhòng yào zhǐ biāo zhī yī.
    The attendance rate is one of the important indicators for evaluating employees.

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.

出勤attendance at work
出chūgo out勤qínduty
动宾Verb + object
率lǜrate

出勤 shows attendance at work, and 率 shows a rate, giving attendance rate.

Characters in this word

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

出 combines 止 (foot) and 凵 (cave) to show a foot stepping out of a cave.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

率 was drawn as a bird-catching net, with a stick above and below. In the form described, the lower horizontal stroke is missing, so the whole shape represents a rope.

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