创建者 (chuàng jiàn zhě) — founder, creator

Definition

noun

foundercreator

创建者。
Tā shì zhè jiā gōng sī de chuàng jiàn zhě.
He is the founder of this company.
创建者。
Zhè suǒ xué xiào de chuàng jiàn zhě fēi cháng guān xīn xué shēng.
The founder of this school cares a lot about the students.
创建者。
Suǒ yǒu xiàng mù de chuàng jiàn zhě dōu lái le.
All founders of the project are here.

Derived word

构词法gòucífǎ

后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

创建found

联合Side by side

创建 means found or establish, and 者 denotes a person who does it.

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 form 者 originally drew a sugarcane with full stems, small points around it, and an open smiling mouth at the bottom.