校内 (xiào nèi) — inside the school; on campus

Definition

inside the schoolon campus

校内。
Wǒ men xiào nèi de shí táng hěn hǎo chī.
The cafeteria on our campus is delicious.
校内。
xiào nèi Jìn zhǐ xī yān.
Smoking is prohibited on campus.
。
Tā zhù zài xiào nèi.
He lives on campus.

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.

'校' means school and '内' means inside, so the word denotes the area inside a school.

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.

木交校

Meaning part形符xíngfú

木木mùtree

Sound part声符shēngfú

交

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

校 is built from 木 (tree) on the left and 交 on the right, which supplies the sound.

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

The shape shows 入 entering into 冂, a house, so it pictures bringing something indoors, giving the sense inside.

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