增长率 (zēng zhǎng lǜ) — rate of increase, growth rate

Definition

noun
rate of increasegrowth rate

Examples

  • 增长率。
    Jīn nián de jīng jì zēng zhǎng lǜ bǐ qù nián gāo.
    This year's economic growth rate is higher than last year's.
  • 增长率。
    Rén kǒu zēng zhǎng lǜ zhèng zài xià jiàng.
    The population growth rate is declining.
  • 增长率。
    Gōng sī qù nián de lì rùn zēng zhǎng lǜ shì bǎi fēn zhī shí.
    The company's profit growth rate last year was ten percent.

Origin

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.

增长increase
增zēngincrease长chánggrow
联合Side by side
率lǜrate

增长 supplies the sense of increasing, and 率 gives the idea of a rate.

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
土土tǔearth
Sound part声符shēngfú
曾
曾céng增zēng
Same sound today

增 uses 土 (earth) to show that things grow in earth or are built from earth, and uses 曾 for the sound. This gives the sense of adding or increasing.

Open 增 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 長; 长 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 長 pictures an old man with long hair. The simplified 长 is a later shorthand, so its strokes do not show that original picture.

Open 长 →

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

率 was drawn as a bird-catching net, with a stick above and below. In the form described, the lower horizontal stroke is missing, so the whole shape represents a rope.

Open 率 →

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