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公有 (gōng yǒu) — publicly owned; public (as an attributive modifier)

Definition

adjective
publicly ownedpublic (as an attributive modifier)

Examples

  • 公有。
    gōng yǒu Zhì shì zhōng guó jīng jì de zhòng yào zǔ chéng bù fen.
    Public ownership is an important part of China's economy.
  • 公有。
    Zhè xiē tǔ dì shǔ yú gōng yǒu cái chǎn.
    These lands are public property.
  • 公有。
    gōng yǒu Hé sī yǒu liǎng zhǒng xíng shì bìng cún.
    Public and private forms coexist.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

A small sentence frozen into a word: something, and what it does or is.

公gōngpublic
有yǒuowns

公有 joins 公 (public) with 有 (owns): the public owns it.

Characters in this word

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

One theory sees 公 as a picture of a wide-mouthed, round-bottomed jar.

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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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
肉肉ròumeat
Sound part声符shēngfú
又
又yòu有yǒu
Same sound today

The form 有 combines 又, used for its sound, with a shape from 肉, 'meat'; the hand-holding-meat story is a folk explanation, not shown in the oldest shape.

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Appears in
Economy & TradeGovernment & Politics

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