受伤者 (shòu shāng zhě) — injured person, casualty

Definition

noun

injured personcasualty

Measure word · 个

受伤者。
Shì gù zhōng yǒu sān míng shòu shāng zhě bèi sòng wǎng yī yuàn.
Three injured people from the accident were sent to the hospital.
受伤者。
Yī shēng zhèng zài wèi shòu shāng zhě bāo zā shāng kǒu.
The doctor is bandaging the injured person's wound.
受伤者。
Jiù yuán rén yuán zhǎo dào le suǒ yǒu de shòu shāng zhě.
The rescue workers found all the injured people.

Derived word

构词法gòucífǎ

后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

受伤be injured

动宾Verb + object

者zhěperson who

“受” (receive) and “伤” (injury) mean hurt, and “者” refers to the person who is hurt.

Characters in this word

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

受 possibly combines 爪 and 又 as hands with 舟 as a boat, to show handing something over.

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 傷; 伤 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

𥏻

𥏻𥏻傷shāng

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 傷 shows 人, a person, and uses 𥏻 to give the sound; the simplified 伤 is a later shorthand.

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

The form 者 originally drew a sugarcane with full stems, small points around it, and an open smiling mouth at the bottom.