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英亩 (yīng mǔ) — (measure word) acre (unit of land area)

Definition

A measure word for acres, a unit of land area used mainly in the US and UK (about 0.4 hectares). Pair it with a preceding number (五英亩) or a container word like 块 to count plots of land.

classifier
acre (unit of land area)

Examples

  • 英亩。
    Tā mǎi le yí kuài wǔ yīng mǔ de tǔ dì.
    He bought a piece of land of five acres.
  • 英亩。
    Zhè ge nóng chǎng yǒu sān shí yīng mǔ dà.
    This farm is thirty acres big.
  • 英亩。
    Yì yīng mǔ dà yuē děng yú líng diǎn sì gōng qǐng.
    One acre is approximately equal to 0.4 hectares.

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.

英yīngEnglish
亩mǔmu

英 names English and 亩 names a land unit, together giving the English acre.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
艹Written in full as艸cǎograss
Sound part声符shēngfú
央
央yāng英yīng
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

英 pairs 艹 (grass) with 央, which gives the sound.

Open 英 →

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 畝; 亩 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
田田tiánfield
Sound part声符shēngfú
每
每měi畝mǔ
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The earlier form 畮 pairs 田, a field, with 每 as a sound part; in the traditional form 畝 that sound part is written as 久. The simplified 亩 is a later variant.

Open 亩 →
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