机修 (jī xiū) — machinery maintenance; mechanical repair (work or profession)

Definition

noun
machinery maintenancemechanical repair (work or profession)

Examples

  • 机修
    Tā zài gōng chǎng zuò jī xiū gōng zuò yǐ jīng shí nián le.
    He has been doing mechanical repair work in the factory for ten years.
  • 机修
    Zhè jiā gōng sī de jī xiū tuán duì jì shù hěn hǎo.
    The mechanical maintenance team at this company has great skills.
  • 机修
    Tā xué de shì jī xiū zhuān yè, bì yè hòu hěn róng yì zhǎo gōng zuò.
    He studied machinery maintenance as his major, and it was easy to find a job after graduation.

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.

machine
xiūrepair

机 names machines and 修 names repair, giving machine repair.

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
tree; wood
Sound part声符shēngfú
Same sound today

The left part is 木 (tree; wood), and the right part 几 gives the sound.

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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
shān
Sound part声符shēngfú
yōuxiū
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

修 is built from 攸, which gives the sound, and 彡, a set of three strokes that shows the meaning.

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