应聘 (yìng pìn) — to apply for a job (position); to accept a job…

Definition

应聘 is from the applicant's side: 'to apply for / accept a job offer'. The employer-side verb is 招聘 ('to recruit'); the job-seeker action is 求职.

verb

to apply for a job (position)to accept a job offer

应聘。
Wǒ xiǎng yìng pìn yì jiā wài guó gōng sī.
I want to apply to a foreign company.
应聘。
Tā yìng pìn le yí fèn fān yì de gōng zuò.
He applied for a translation job.
应聘，。
Tā yìng pìn le nà fèn gōng zuò, xià zhōu yī kāi shǐ shàng bān.
She accepted that job offer and starts work next Monday.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

聘pìnhiring offer

Responding to a hiring offer gives the idea of applying for a job.

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 應; 应 is its simplified writing.

䧹心應

Meaning part形符xíngfú

心心xīnheart

Sound part声符shēngfú

䧹

䧹䧹應yìng

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

The traditional form 應 pairs 心 (heart) with 䧹 as a sound part; the simplified 应 is a later shorthand and its parts are not the original components.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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