山村 (shān cūn) — mountain village

Definition

noun
mountain village
Measure word ·

Examples

  • 山村
    Zhè ge shān cūn hěn měi, měi nián dōu yǒu hěn duō yóu kè lái.
    This mountain village is very beautiful, and many tourists come every year.
  • 山村
    Tā cóng xiǎo zài yí gè shān cūn lǐ zhǎng dà.
    He grew up in a mountain village from a young age.
  • 山村
    shān cūn De shēng huó suī rán jiǎn dān, dàn hěn níng jìng.
    Life in a mountain village is simple but very peaceful.

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.

shānmountain
cūnvillage

山 names a mountain, and 村 is a village; together they mean a village in the mountains.

Characters in this word

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

山 shows three mountain peaks side by side.

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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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
tree
Sound part声符shēngfú
cùncūn
Same sound today

村 pairs 木 (tree) with 寸 as a sound hint; its origin is unclear.

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