逃亡者 (táo wáng zhě) — fugitive (someone fleeing from justice, danger,…

Definition

noun

fugitive (someone fleeing from justice, danger, or capture)displaced person (someone forced to leave their home, especially due to war or disaster)

Measure word · 个

逃亡者。
Jǐng chá zhèng zài zhuī bǔ nà míng táo wáng zhě.
The police are chasing that fugitive.
逃亡者。
Zhàn zhēng shǐ xǔ duō rén chéng wéi le táo wáng zhě.
The war turned many people into displaced persons.
逃亡者。
Zhè ge táo wáng zhě cáng zài yí gè fèi qì de fáng zi lǐ.
This fugitive is hiding in an abandoned house.

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.

逃亡flee

联合Coordinate

逃亡 means flee and 者 marks a person, naming someone who flees.

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.

辶兆逃

Meaning part形符xíngfú

辶Written in full as辵chuòwalk

Sound part声符shēngfú

兆

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

逃 pairs 辶 (walk) with 兆, which gives the pronunciation.

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

The shape originally marked a knife's cutting edge with a line.

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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