创建人 (chuàng jiàn rén) — founder; creator

Definition

noun

foundercreator

创建人。
Zhè jiā gōng sī de chuàng jiàn rén shì yí wèi nián qīng chuàng yè zhě.
The founder of this company is a young entrepreneur.
创建人，。
Tā shì zhè ge xiàng mù de chuàng jiàn rén, zuò le hěn duō gōng zuò.
He is the creator of this project and did a lot of work.
创建人。
chuàng jiàn rén Jué dìng jiāng gōng sī jiāo gěi xià yí dài guǎn lǐ.
The founder decided to hand the company over to the next generation for management.

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.

创建create

联合Side by side

创建 means create and build, and 人 is the person linked to it, giving founder.

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 創; 创 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

刀刀dāoknife

Sound part声符shēngfú

倉

倉cāng創chuàng

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 創 pairs 倉 with 刀 (knife) to write 'wound', and 倉 gives the pronunciation. The simplified 创 is a later shorthand.

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

廴聿建

The shape 建 shows 廴 and 聿, but it comes from an older drawing of a hand planting a pole into a base; the lower part of 聿 is not a brush.

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

The shape of 人 shows a side view of a standing person, with an arm and a leg.