制造商 (zhì zào shāng) — manufacturer | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

manufacturer

Measure word · 个

Examples

制造商。
Zhè jiā zhì zào shāng shēng chǎn shǒu jī.
This manufacturer produces mobile phones.
制造商。
Wǒ men gōng sī yǔ liǎng jiā zhì zào shāng hé zuò.
Our company cooperates with two manufacturers.
制造商。
Zhè jiā zhì zào shāng de chǎn pǐn zhì liàng hěn hǎo.
This manufacturer's product quality is very good.

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.

制造manufacture

制zhìmake造zàomake

联合Coordinate

商shāngbusiness

制造 means to make or produce, and 商 denotes a business, so together they name a business that manufactures.

Characters in this word

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

朱朱zhūtree
刀刀dāoknife

The form 制 pairs 朱 (tree) with 刀 (knife), showing the act of cutting a tree.

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

辵辵chuòto walk

Sound part声符shēngfú

屮

屮chè造zào

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

Its origin is unclear, but early forms of 造 include 辵 (to walk) and 口, with 屮 as a sound part, and mean go or arrive.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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