文学社 (wén xué shè) — literary society; literary club

Definition

noun

literary societyliterary club

Measure word · 个

文学社，。
Tā jiā rù le xué xiào de wén xué shè, měi zhōu dōu cān jiā xiě zuò tǎo lùn.
He joined the school literary society and participates in writing discussions every week.
文学社。
Wǒ men wén xué shè jì huà chū bǎn yì běn xué shēng shī jí.
Our literary club plans to publish a student poetry collection.
文学社。
Zhè ge wén xué shè yǒu sān shí duō nián de lì shǐ le.
This literary society has a history of over thirty years.

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.

文学literature

偏正Modifier + head

文学, meaning literature, and 社, meaning society, together form a literary society.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

The current form 文 shows a man with head, arms, legs, and chest; the tattoo marks on the chest are no longer drawn.

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 學; 学 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 學 may have used 爻 and 六 for sound, with hands and a child added later; the simplified 学 is a shorthand.

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

社 joins 示 (god; deity) and 土 (soil), so its shape is about the god of the land.