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支持率 (zhī chí lǜ) — support rate, approval rating

Definition

noun
support rateapproval rating

Examples

  • 支持率。
    Zǒng tǒng zuì jìn de zhī chí lǜ xià jiàng le.
    The president's approval rating has dropped recently.
  • 支持率。
    Zhè jiā gōng sī de gù kè zhī chí lǜ hěn gāo.
    This company's customer support rate is very high.
  • ，支持率。
    Diào chá xiǎn shì, zhè xiàng zhèng cè de zhī chí lǜ dá dào bǎi fēn zhī jiǔ shí.
    The survey shows that the support rate for this policy has reached ninety percent.

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.

支持support
支zhīsupport持chíhold
联合Coordinate
率lǜrate

支持 gives support and 率 gives the rate, so the word names the percentage that backs something.

Characters in this word

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

支 pairs 又 (hand) with 十, a shortened form of 竹 (bamboo), to picture a bamboo branch.

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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
手手shǒu
Sound part声符shēngfú
寺
寺sì持chí
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

持 combines 手 (hand), for the idea of holding, with 寺, which gives the sound.

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

率 was drawn as a bird-catching net, with a stick above and below. In the form described, the lower horizontal stroke is missing, so the whole shape represents a rope.

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