富人 (fù rén) — rich person | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

rich person

Measure word · 个

Examples

富人。
Zhè wèi fù rén juān le hěn duō qián gěi xué xiào.
This rich person donated a lot of money to the school.
富人。
Nà ge xiǎo qū zhù de dōu shì fù rén.
That neighborhood is all lived in by rich people.
富人。
fù rén De shēng huó bìng bù zǒng shì kuài lè de.
The life of a rich person is not always happy.

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.

The sense of 富 as rich and 人 as person gives a rich person.

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.

宀畐富

Meaning part形符xíngfú

宀宀mián

Sound part声符shēngfú

畐

畐fú富fù

Same sound today

富 pairs 宀, a roof-shaped part, with 畐, which gives the sound fú.

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

The shape of 人 shows a side view of a standing person, with an arm and a leg.

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