求职者 (qiú zhí zhě) — job applicant | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

job applicant

Measure word · 位

求职者。
Hěn duō qiú zhí zhě cān jiā le jīn tiān de zhāo pìn huì.
Many job applicants attended today's job fair.
求职者。
Zhè jiā gōng sī yāo qiú qiú zhí zhě tí gōng liǎng fèn tuī jiàn xìn.
This company requires job applicants to provide two recommendation letters.
求职者。
Miàn shì guān zǐ xì yuè dú le měi gè qiú zhí zhě de jiǎn lì.
The interviewer carefully read each job applicant's resume.

Derived word

构词法gòucífǎ

后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

求职seek a job

动宾Verb + object

求 means to seek and 职 a job, while 者 denotes the person doing it.

Characters in this word

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

求 began as a drawing of a centipede.

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 職; 职 is its simplified writing.

耳戠職

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

戠

戠zhí職zhí

Same sound today

The traditional form 職 pairs 耳 (ear) with 戠, which gives its sound; the simplified 职 is a shorthand, so its parts are not the historical parts.

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

The form 者 originally drew a sugarcane with full stems, small points around it, and an open smiling mouth at the bottom.