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加工厂 (jiā gōng chǎng) — processing plant

Definition

noun
processing plant
Measure word · 家

Examples

  • 加工厂。
    Zhè jiā jiā gōng chǎng zhǔ yào shēng chǎn shí pǐn.
    This processing plant mainly produces food.
  • 加工厂。
    Tā zài yì jiā mù cái jiā gōng chǎng gōng zuò.
    He works at a wood processing plant.
  • 加工厂。
    Zhèng fǔ guān bì le nà jiā wū rǎn yán zhòng de jiā gōng chǎng.
    The government closed that heavily polluting processing plant.

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.

加工processing
加jiāadd工gōngwork
动宾Verb + object
厂chǎngplant

加工 means adding work, and 厂 is a plant, so it names a place where something is worked on.

Characters in this word

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

加 pairs 力 and 口. In one explanation 力 is strength and 口 is the mouth, meaning exaggeration; in another 力 is plowing effort and 口 is breath or exclamation, meaning extra effort.

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

The shape of 工 is a picture of a bladed tool used to plow ground or mark a border; some read it as a carpenter's square.

Open 工 →

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 廠; 厂 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
广广guǎng
Sound part声符shēngfú
敞
敞chǎng廠chǎng
Same sound today

The traditional form 廠 combines 广 with 敞, which gives the sound; the simplified 厂 is a later shorthand.

Open 厂 →
Appears in
Industry & Manufacturing

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