名记者 (míng jì zhě) — famous journalist; well-known reporter

Definition

noun
famous journalistwell-known reporter
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 名记者。
    Tā shì yí wèi míng jì zhě.
    He is a famous journalist.
  • 名记者。
    Zhè wèi míng jì zhě bào dào le hěn duō guó jì xīn wén.
    This famous journalist reported a lot of international news.
  • 名记者。
    Nà wèi míng jì zhě de cǎi fǎng fēi cháng shēn rù.
    That famous journalist's interview was very in-depth.

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.

名míngfamous
记者journalist
记jìrecord者zhěperson
后缀Suffix

名 means famous, and 记者 is a person who records news, giving the sense of a well-known reporter.

Characters in this word

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

名 puts 夕 (crescent moon) above 口 (mouth), showing a name spoken in the dark.

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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 記; 记 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
言言yánspeech; words
Sound part声符shēngfú
己
己jǐ記jì
Same sound today

The traditional form 記 pairs 言 (speech; words) with 己 as a sound part; the simplified 记 is a later shorthand, so its right side is not the historical component.

Open 记 →

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.

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