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负债表 (fù zhài biǎo) — balance sheet

Definition

noun
balance sheet
Measure word · 张

Examples

  • 负债表。
    Gōng sī de fù zhài biǎo xiǎn shì zī chǎn dà yú fù zhài.
    The company's balance sheet shows assets greater than liabilities.
  • 负债表。
    Kuài jì zhèng zài zhǔn bèi jīn nián de fù zhài biǎo.
    The accountant is preparing this year's balance sheet.
  • 负债表。
    Tóu zī zhě zǐ xì fēn xī le zhè jiā gōng sī de fù zhài biǎo.
    Investors carefully analyzed this company's balance sheet.

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.

负债liabilities
负fùbear/incur债zhàidebt
动宾Verb + object
表biǎotable/form

负债 records debts owed, and 表 is the table that lists them.

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 負; 负 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 負 combines 人 (person) and 貝 (cowry), with 人 written as ⺈; the simplified 负 is a later abbreviation.

Open 负 →

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 債; 债 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
亻Written in full as人rén
Sound part声符shēngfú
責
責zé債zhài
Same sound today

The traditional form 債 combines 亻 (person) with 責 as a sound part; the simplified 债 is a later shorthand, and its right side is not the historical sound part.

Open 债 →

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

The shape 表 pairs 衣 (garment) with 毛 (hair or feather), originally an outer garment.

Open 表 →
Appears in
Finance & Banking

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