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刊登 (kān dēng) — to publish (in a newspaper or magazine)

Definition

刊登 means to carry or run a piece in a newspaper or magazine (articles, ads, news). It is more concrete than 发表 (to issue/publish broadly) and narrower than 出版 (publish a book).

verb
to publish (in a newspaper or magazine)

Examples

  • 刊登。
    Zhè piān lùn wén jiāng zài xià ge yuè de qī kān shàng kān dēng.
    This paper will be published in next month's journal.
  • 刊登。
    Bào shè jué dìng míng tiān kān dēng zhè tiáo zhòng yào xīn wén.
    The newspaper decided to publish this important news tomorrow.
  • 刊登。
    Zá zhì shàng kān dēng le yì zǔ jīng měi de shè yǐng zuò pǐn.
    The magazine published a set of exquisite photographic works.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

刊kānprint/publish
登dēngrecord/publish

刊 means to print or publish, and 登 means to record or publish, so together they mean to put a story out in print.

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
刀刀dāoknife
Sound part声符shēngfú
干
干gān刊kān
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

刊 uses 干 to show its sound and 刀, a knife, to show its meaning.

Open 刊 →

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

  • 癶癶bōleft and right feet
  • 豆豆dòupictogrammic of raised object; stepping stone

登 pairs 癶, left and right feet, with 豆, a raised object or stepping stone; its older form also showed two hands at the bottom, which later dropped.

Open 登 →
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HSK 3.0 Level 7-9HSK 2.0 Level 6Media & News

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