建筑队 (jiàn zhù duì) — construction team, building crew

Definition

noun
construction teambuilding crew
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 建筑队。
    Zhè ge jiàn zhù duì yǒu wǔ shí gè gōng rén.
    This construction team has fifty workers.
  • 建筑队。
    jiàn zhù duì Zhèng zài xiū yì tiáo xīn lù.
    The construction crew is building a new road.
  • 建筑队。
    Tā men qǐng le yì zhī zhuān yè jiàn zhù duì lái gài fáng zi.
    They hired a professional construction team to build the house.

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.

建筑construction
建jiànbuild筑zhùconstruct
联合Side by side
队duìteam

建 and 筑 both mean to build, and 队 means team, naming a group that does construction work.

Characters in this word

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

  • 廴廴yǐn
  • 聿聿yù

The shape 建 shows 廴 and 聿, but it comes from an older drawing of a hand planting a pole into a base; the lower part of 聿 is not a brush.

Open 建 →

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 築; 筑 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
木木mùwood
Sound part声符shēngfú
筑
筑zhù築zhù
Same sound today

The traditional form 築 pairs 木 (wood) with 筑, which gives the sound; the simplified 筑 is a later shorthand.

Open 筑 →

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 隊; 队 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
阜阜fù
Sound part声符shēngfú
㒸
㒸㒸隊duì
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 隊 has 阜 as the meaning part and 㒸 as the sound part.

Open 队 →

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