工作量 (gōng zuò liàng) — workload | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

workload

工作量。
Zhè ge yuè de gōng zuò liàng bǐ shàng ge yuè duō le bù shǎo.
The workload this month is a lot more than last month.
工作量。
Gōng sī jué dìng jiǎn shǎo měi gè rén de gōng zuò liàng.
The company decided to reduce everyone's workload.
工作量，。
gōng zuò liàng Tài dà, tā jīng cháng jiā bān dào hěn wǎn.
The workload is too heavy; he often works overtime until very late.

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.

工作work

联合Coordinate

工作 means work, and 量 means amount, naming a workload.

Characters in this word

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

The shape of 工 is a picture of a bladed tool used to plow ground or mark a border; some read it as a carpenter's square.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

亻乍作

Meaning part形符xíngfú

亻Written in full as人rénperson

Sound part声符shēngfú

乍

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

The left side 亻 comes from 人, meaning 'person', and the right side 乍 gives the sound.

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

量 has 日 (sun) over 東 (bag; east). Some explanations suggest measuring under the sun or the sun rising in the east, but the exact origin is unclear.

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