低收入 (dī shōu rù) — low income | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

low income

低收入。
Hěn duō dī shōu rù jiā tíng xū yào zhèng fǔ de bāng zhù.
Many low-income families need government help.
低收入，。
Tā lái zì dī shōu rù qún tǐ, dàn xué xí fēi cháng nǔ lì.
He comes from a low-income group but studies very hard.
低收入。
Zhèng fǔ tuī chū zhèng cè gǎi shàn dī shōu rù rén qún de shēng huó.
The government introduced policies to improve the lives of low-income people.

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.

收入income

联合Coordinate

低 gives the quality of being low, while 收入 refers to what is received and entering as income.

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.

亻氐低

Meaning part形符xíngfú

亻Written in full as人rénman, person

Sound part声符shēngfú

氐

氐dī低dī

Same sound today

In 低, the left side 亻 is a person, and the right side 氐 gives the sound; the image is a person lowering or bowing themselves.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú

攴攴pū

Sound part声符shēngfú

丩

丩jiū收shōu

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

收 uses 攴 to show an action and 丩 as a sound clue; the old meaning was 'to arrest.'

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

入 is drawn as an arrowhead, indicating 'to enter'.

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