教育者 (jiào yù zhě) — educator | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

educator

Measure word · 位

教育者，。
Zuò wéi yì míng jiào yù zhě, tā fēi cháng guān xīn xué shēng.
As an educator, she cares a lot about her students.
教育者。
Zhè wèi jiào yù zhě zài jiào yù shì yè shàng gòng xiàn le hěn duō.
This educator has contributed a lot to the education field.
教育者。
Yōu xiù de jiào yù zhě xū yào bú duàn xué xí xīn zhī shi.
Excellent educators need to keep learning new knowledge.

Derived word

构词法gòucífǎ

后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

教育education

联合Side by side

The 者 marks a person associated with 教育 'education'.

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.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

The form 者 originally drew a sugarcane with full stems, small points around it, and an open smiling mouth at the bottom.