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五星级 (wǔ xīng jí) — five-star (rating, indicating top quality, e.g. hotels or services)

Definition

adjective
five-star (rating, indicating top quality, e.g. hotels or services)

Examples

  • 五星级，。
    Zhè jiā jiǔ diàn shì wǔ xīng jí de, fú wù fēi cháng hǎo.
    This hotel is five-star, and the service is excellent.
  • 五星级，。
    Zhè ge cān tīng bèi píng wéi wǔ xīng jí, měi tiān dōu yǒu hěn duō rén lái.
    This restaurant received a five-star rating, and many people come every day.
  • 五星级。
    Tā zhù de gōng yù yǒu wǔ xīng jí de pǐn zhì.
    The apartment he lives in has five-star quality.

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.

五星five stars
五wǔfive星xīngstar
偏正Modifier + head
级jígrade

'五星' five stars and '级' grade together indicate a top-level rating.

Characters in this word

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

An older form had a crossed mark between a top bar and a bottom bar. The modern 五 keeps those bars, while the original idea is uncertain.

Open 五 →

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

The top of 星 is a later simplified form of 晶, twinkling stars; the bottom 生 shows the sound.

Open 星 →

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 級; 级 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
糹Written in full as糸mìthread
Sound part声符shēngfú
及
及jí級jí
Same sound today

The traditional form 級 has 糹 (thread) and 及 as a sound part; its original sense was a sequence related to silk. The simplified 级 is a later shorthand.

Open 级 →
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