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收视率 (shōu shì lǜ) — TV ratings, audience ratings

Definition

noun
TV ratingsaudience ratings

Examples

  • 收视率。
    Zhè ge diàn shì jù de shōu shì lǜ hěn gāo.
    This TV drama has very high ratings.
  • 收视率。
    Zhì zuò rén hěn guān xīn shōu shì lǜ de biàn huà.
    Producers care a lot about changes in ratings.
  • 收视率，。
    Wèi le tí gāo shōu shì lǜ, tā men qǐng le zhù míng yǎn yuán.
    To boost ratings, they invited famous actors.

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.

收视viewing
收shōureceive视shìwatch
联合Coordinate
率lǜrate

收 denotes receiving, 视 denotes watching, and 率 denotes rate, giving the sense of audience rate.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
攴攴pū
Sound part声符shēngfú
丩
丩jiū收shōu
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

收 uses 攴 to show an action and 丩 as a sound clue; the old meaning was 'to arrest.'

Open 收 →

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 視; 视 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
見見jiànsee
Sound part声符shēngfú
示
示shì視shì
Same sound today

The story is about the traditional form 視: it combines 見, meaning see, with 示, which gives the sound shì.

Open 视 →

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.

Open 率 →
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