教职员工 (jiào zhí yuán gōng) — faculty and staff (of a school or university)

Definition

noun
faculty and staff (of a school or university)

Examples

  • 教职员工。
    Wǒ men xué xiào de jiào zhí yuán gōng yǒu jǐ bǎi rén.
    Our school has several hundred faculty and staff.
  • 教职员工。
    Zhè xiàng zhèng cè shì yòng yú quán tǐ jiào zhí yuán gōng.
    This policy applies to all faculty and staff.
  • 教职员工。
    Quán tǐ jiào zhí yuán gōng dōu cān jiā le huì yì.
    All faculty and staff attended the meeting.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéSide by side

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

教职teaching posts
教jiàoteach职zhípost
偏正Modifier + head
员工workers
员yuánmember工gōngworker
联合Side by side

教职 names teaching posts, 员工 names workers, together covering faculty and staff.

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
子子zǐchild
攵Written in full as攴pūteaching cane; stick that represents authority
Sound part声符shēngfú
爻
爻yáo教jiào
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

教 uses 爻 for its sound and puts 子 (child) with 攵 (攴), a teaching cane, to show teaching a child.

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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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 職; 职 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
耳耳ěrear
Sound part声符shēngfú
戠
戠zhí職zhí
Same sound today

The traditional form 職 pairs 耳 (ear) with 戠, which gives its sound; the simplified 职 is a shorthand, so its parts are not the historical parts.

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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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 員; 员 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
鼎鼎dǐngding
Sound part声符shēngfú
〇
〇líng員yuán
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In the traditional form 員, 〇 supplies the sound and 鼎 supplies the meaning; the simplified 员 is a shortened form.

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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.

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