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分公司 (fēn gōng sī) — branch office (of a company)

Definition

noun
branch office (of a company)
Measure word · 家

Examples

  • 分公司。
    Zhè jiā gōng sī zài shàng hǎi yǒu wǔ jiā fēn gōng sī.
    This company has five branch offices in Shanghai.
  • 分公司。
    Wǒ men fēn gōng sī de jīng lǐ xià zhōu yào chū chāi.
    The manager of our branch office is going on a business trip next week.
  • 分公司。
    Xīn kāi de yì jiā fēn gōng sī zhǔ yào fù zé hǎi wài shì chǎng.
    A newly opened branch office is mainly responsible for overseas markets.

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.

分fēnbranch
公司company
公gōngpublic司sīoffice
偏正Modifier + head

分 (branch) and 公司 (company) together mean a branch of a company.

Characters in this word

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

分 pairs 八 (to separate) with 刀 (knife), showing something cut apart with a knife.

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

The evidence is inconclusive: one suggestion sees 司 as a mouth giving orders beside a mark of authority, another reads that mark as a hand, and another sees it as a reversed older form.

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Appears in
Business & CommerceWorkplace & Office

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