农用 (nóng yòng) — agricultural, farm-oriented (used as an attributive adjective)

Definition

adjective
agriculturalfarm-oriented (used as an attributive adjective)

Examples

  • 农用。
    Zhè liàng nóng yòng tuō lā jī hěn nài yòng.
    This farm tractor is very durable.
  • 农用。
    Tā men mǎi le hěn duō nóng yòng shè bèi.
    They bought a lot of agricultural equipment.
  • 农用。
    nóng yòng Tǔ dì xū yào hǎo hǎo bǎo hù.
    Agricultural land needs to be well protected.

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.

农nóngagriculture
用yònguse

农 gives agriculture, and 用 gives use, so it describes something for farm use.

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 農; 农 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 農 comes from 林 (vegetation) and 辰 (a hoe), showing a hoe among vegetation to remove weeds; the simplified 农 is a later abbreviation.

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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.

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

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