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包机 (bāo jī) — to charter a plane; chartered plane / charter flight

Definition

A verb-object compound meaning to charter (a plane), or the resulting chartered plane itself. The action sense pairs with 租 (rent); the noun sense is a specific type of 航班.

verb
to charter a planechartered plane / charter flight

Examples

  • 包机。
    Wǒ men gōng sī zhè cì bāo jī qù hǎi nán kāi huì.
    Our company is chartering a plane to go to Hainan for a meeting this time.
  • 包机，。
    Tā men bāo le yí jià bāo jī, kě yǐ zuò liǎng bǎi gè rén.
    They chartered a plane that can seat two hundred people.
  • 包机。
    Zhè tàng bāo jī yǐ jīng qǔ xiāo le.
    This charter flight has already been cancelled.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

包bāocharter
机jīplane

包 “charter” and 机 “plane” combine to mean chartering a plane or a chartered flight.

Characters in this word

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

The shape of 包 pictures a fetus in a womb, or a baby wrapped in cloth.

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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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
木木mùtree; wood
Sound part声符shēngfú
几
几jǐ机jī
Same sound today

The left part is 木 (tree; wood), and the right part 几 gives the sound.

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Air Travel

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