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交会 (jiāo huì) — (of vehicles, roads, lines, or abstract things) to meet, to converge, to rendezvous

Definition

交会 (jiāohuì) means two or more moving or extending things (roads, lines, cultures, trends) coming together at a point — emphasize convergence, not simple meeting of people.

verb
(of vehicles, roads, lines, or abstract things) to meetto convergeto rendezvous

Examples

  • 交会。
    Liǎng tiáo gāo sù gōng lù zài chéng wài jiāo huì.
    Two highways converge outside the city.
  • 。
    Zhè liǎng tiáo zhí xiàn zài tóng yí gè diǎn shàng jiāo huì.
    These two lines intersect at the same point.
  • ，交会。
    Zài huì yì shàng, dōng fāng wén huà hé xī fāng wén huà jiāo huì le.
    At the conference, Eastern and Western cultures converged.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

交jiāocross
会huìmeet

交 and 会 both express crossing and meeting, giving the sense of converging.

Characters in this word

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

交 originally drew a human with crossed legs. In the modern shape, the upper part resembles a standing person.

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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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 會; 会 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
合合héto meet
Sound part声符shēngfú
𡆧
𡆧𡆧會huì
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

Traditional 會 pairs 合 (to meet) with 𡆧, an original form for ironware, to give the sound. The simplified 会 is a later shorthand, so its parts are not the original parts.

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