伤者 (shāng zhě) — the wounded; the injured (person)

Definition

noun

the woundedthe injured (person)

Measure word · 位

，伤者。
Shì gù fā shēng hòu, shāng zhě bèi xùn sù sòng wǎng yī yuàn.
After the accident, the injured were quickly sent to the hospital.
伤者。
Yī shēng zhèng zài quán lì qiǎng jiù suǒ yǒu shāng zhě.
The doctors are doing their best to rescue all the wounded.
，伤者。
Dì zhèn zhōng, shāng zhě de shù liàng hái zài zēng jiā.
The number of injured people in the earthquake is still increasing.

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.

伤 names the wound and 者 points to the person, so it means the wounded person.

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 傷; 伤 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

𥏻

𥏻𥏻傷shāng

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 傷 shows 人, a person, and uses 𥏻 to give the sound; the simplified 伤 is a later shorthand.

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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