果农 (guǒ nóng) — fruit farmer

Definition

noun
fruit farmer
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 果农。
    Zhè wèi guǒ nóng zhòng zhí le shàng bǎi mǔ píng guǒ shù.
    This fruit farmer has planted hundreds of acres of apple trees.
  • ，果农。
    Jīn nián yǔ shuǐ chōng zú, guǒ nóng men dōu hěn gāo xìng.
    With ample rainfall this year, the fruit farmers are all very happy.
  • 果农。
    Xǔ duō guǒ nóng kāi shǐ cǎi yòng xīn jì shù tí gāo chǎn liàng.
    Many fruit farmers have started adopting new technologies to increase yield.

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.

果guǒfruit
农nóngfarmer

果 is fruit and 农 is a farmer; together they name a farmer who grows fruit.

Characters in this word

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

果 originally drew fruits hanging on a tree.

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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 農; 农 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 農 comes from 林 (vegetation) and 辰 (a hoe), showing a hoe among vegetation to remove weeds; the simplified 农 is a later abbreviation.

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