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工资单 (gōng zī chán) — pay slip; pay stub

Definition

noun
pay slippay stub
Measure word · 张

Examples

  • 工资单。
    Qǐng bǎ nǐ de gōng zī chán gěi wǒ kàn kàn.
    Please show me your pay slip.
  • 工资单。
    Zhè ge yuè de gōng zī chán shàng xiǎn shì jiā bān fèi.
    This month's pay slip shows overtime pay.
  • 工资单。
    Tā zǐ xì jiǎn chá le gōng zī chán shàng de shù zì.
    He carefully checked the numbers on the pay slip.

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.

工资wages
工gōngwork资zīfunds
偏正Modifier + head
单dānlist

工资 is money from work, and 单 is a list, so the word is a pay slip.

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.

Open 工 →

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 資; 资 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
貝貝bèishell-money
Sound part声符shēngfú
次
次cì資zī
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 資 puts 次 above 貝, a shell-money sign, to write property or resource; 次 supplies the sound. The simplified 资 is a shorthand, so do not treat its parts as historical.

Open 资 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 單; 单 is its simplified writing.

The form 單 originally pictured a Y-shaped wooden stick with two stones on top.

Open 单 →
Appears in
Workplace & Office

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