谋杀案 (móu shā àn) — murder case | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

murder case

Measure word · 起

Examples

谋杀案。
Zhè shì yì qǐ lìng rén zhèn jīng de móu shā àn.
This is a shocking murder case.
谋杀案。
Jǐng fāng zhèng zài diào chá zhè qǐ móu shā àn.
The police are investigating this murder case.
谋杀案。
Nà qǐ móu shā àn yǐ jīng kāi tíng shěn lǐ le.
That murder case has already been tried in court.

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.

谋杀murder

谋móuplot杀shākill

联合Coordinate

案àncase

谋杀 joins 谋 plot and 杀 kill, and 案 is a case, together naming a murder case.

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 謀; 谋 is its simplified writing.

言某謀

Meaning part形符xíngfú

言言yán

Sound part声符shēngfú

某

某mǒu謀móu

Same sound today

The traditional form 謀 uses 言 to show it relates to speech and 某 to show its sound; the simplified 谋 is a later shorthand.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 殺; 杀 is its simplified writing.

人人rénperson
又又yòuright hand

The traditional form 殺 comes from an old drawing of a boar impaled in the head, with 人 and 又 added to show a person doing the killing; the simplified 杀 is a later abbreviation.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

木安案

Meaning part形符xíngfú

木木mù

Sound part声符shēngfú

安

安ān案àn

Same sound today

案 pairs 木, a wood/tree shape, with 安, which is used for its sound.

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