使用者 (shǐ yòng zhě) — user | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

user

Measure word · 个

使用者。
Zhè ge ruǎn jiàn yǒu hěn duō shǐ yòng zhě zhù cè le.
Many users have registered for this software.
使用者。
shǐ yòng zhě Kě yǐ zài zhè lǐ tián xiě fǎn kuì xìn xī.
Users can fill in feedback information here.
使用者。
Xì tǒng huì jì lù měi gè shǐ yòng zhě de dēng lù shí jiān.
The system records the login time of each user.

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.

使用use

联合Coordinate

使用 means use; 者 refers to the person doing it, so 使用者 is a user.

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.

亻吏使

Meaning part形符xíngfú

亻Written in full as人rén

Sound part声符shēngfú

吏

吏lì使shǐ

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

使 pairs 亻 (person) with 吏, which pictures a hand holding something like a flag, giving the sense of a representative or ambassador.

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

用 was formed by adding a handle to an earlier form.

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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