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联席会议 (lián xí huì yì) — joint conference; joint meeting (of multiple organizations or departments)

Definition

noun
joint conferencejoint meeting (of multiple organizations or departments)

Examples

  • 联席会议。
    Zhè cì lián xí huì yì yóu liǎng gè bù mén gòng tóng zhǔ bàn.
    This joint meeting is co-hosted by two departments.
  • 联席会议。
    lián xí huì yì De mù dì shì xié tiáo gè fāng yì jiàn.
    The purpose of the joint conference is to coordinate opinions from all sides.
  • 联席会议。
    Tā men měi nián zhào kāi yí cì lián xí huì yì.
    They hold a joint meeting once a year.

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.

联席joint
联liánjoin席xíseat
偏正Modifier + head
会议meeting
会huìmeet议yìdiscuss
联合Coordinate

联席 joins 联 and 席 to mean joint, while 会议 is a meeting; the result names a joint conference.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 聯; 联 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 聯 combines 耳 (ear) and 絲 (silk); 联 is a simplified form of 聯.

Open 联 →

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

席 originally showed a woven mat with an ornament. In 席, the mat became 巾, and a later sound part was written as 庶.

Open 席 →

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 會; 会 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
合合héto meet
Sound part声符shēngfú
𡆧
𡆧𡆧會huì
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

Traditional 會 pairs 合 (to meet) with 𡆧, an original form for ironware, to give the sound. The simplified 会 is a later shorthand, so its parts are not the original parts.

Open 会 →

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 議; 议 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
言言yántalk
Sound part声符shēngfú
義
義yì議⁰yì
Same sound today

The traditional form 議 pairs 言 (talk) with 義 as a sound component; the simplified 议 is a later shorthand.

Open 议 →
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