军工厂 (jūn gōng ān) — ordnance factory; munitions factory

Definition

noun
ordnance factorymunitions factory
Measure word · 家

Examples

  • 军工厂。
    Zhè jiā jūn gōng ān shēng chǎn jūn yòng fēi jī.
    This military factory produces military aircraft.
  • 军工厂。
    Tā zài jūn gōng ān gōng zuò le èr shí nián.
    He worked at the military factory for twenty years.
  • 军工厂。
    Nà zuò jiù jūn gōng ān xiàn zài gǎi chéng le bó wù guǎn.
    That old military factory has now been turned into a museum.

Origin

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.

军工military industry
军jūnmilitary工gōngindustry
偏正Modifier + head
厂chǎngfactory

军工, military industry, and 厂, factory, together mean a factory making military supplies.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 軍; 军 is its simplified writing.

  • 車車jūcart; chariot
  • 勹勹bāoto surround

In the traditional form 軍, 車 shows the chariot sense, while the part now written 勹 is a sound part, not the 'surround' 勹. Simplified 军 is a later shorthand.

Open 军 →

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

The shape of 工 is a picture of a bladed tool used to plow ground or mark a border; some read it as a carpenter's square.

Open 工 →

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 廠; 厂 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
广广guǎng
Sound part声符shēngfú
敞
敞chǎng廠chǎng
Same sound today

The traditional form 廠 combines 广 with 敞, which gives the sound; the simplified 厂 is a later shorthand.

Open 厂 →

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