旅游业 (lǚ yóu yè) — tourism industry, tourist industry

Definition

noun
tourism industrytourist industry

Examples

  • 旅游业。
    lǚ yóu yè Duì jīng jì fā zhǎn yǒu hěn dà yǐng xiǎng.
    The tourism industry has a big impact on economic development.
  • 旅游业。
    Zhè ge dì qū de lǚ yóu yè zhèng zài kuài sù fā zhǎn.
    The tourism industry in this region is developing rapidly.
  • 旅游业。
    lǚ yóu yè Chuàng zào le hěn duō jiù yè jī huì.
    The tourism industry has created many job opportunities.

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.

旅游travel
旅lǚtravel游yóutour
联合Side by side
业yèindustry

旅 “travel,” 游 “tour,” and 业 “industry” together mean tourism industry.

Characters in this word

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

旅 combines 㫃, a flag, and 从, two people, to show troops or a brigade.

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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
水水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
斿
斿yóu游yóu
Same sound today

游 combines 水 (water) with 斿, which gives the sound yóu and also relates to travelling.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 業; 业 is its simplified writing.

  • 丵丵zhuóchisel
  • 大大dàperson; big

The traditional 業 is explained as a picture of a beam from which bells and chimes hang, or as a person lifting that beam. The simplified 业 is a shorthand, not the original shape.

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