目击者 (mù jī zhě) — eyewitness | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

eyewitness

Measure word · 个

目击者。
Nà wèi mù jī zhě xiáng xì miáo shù le àn fā guò chéng.
That eyewitness described the incident in detail.
目击者。
Jǐng fāng zhǎo dào le liǎng míng mù jī zhě.
The police found two eyewitnesses.
目击者。
mù jī zhě De zhèng cí duì pò àn fēi cháng zhòng yào.
The eyewitness's testimony is very important for solving the case.

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.

目击witness

主谓Subject + predicate

The person who 目击, seeing with the eyes, is a 目击者.

Characters in this word

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

目 began as a drawing of a human eye, turned sideways.

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 擊; 击 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

毄

毄jī擊jī

Same sound today

The traditional form 擊 has 手 (hand) and 毄; 毄 gives the sound and also points to striking, while the simplified 击 is a later shorthand.

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.

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