双人 (shuāng rén) — two-person; double; for two people

Definition

adjective
two-persondoublefor two people

Examples

  • Wǒ men jiǔ diàn yǒu yì zhāng shuāng rén chuáng.
    Our hotel has a double bed.
  • 双人
    Tā men zū le yí liàng shuāng rén zì xíng chē huán hú qí xíng.
    They rented a tandem bicycle to ride around the lake.
  • 双人
    Zhè chǎng bǐ sài shì shuāng rén xiàng mù, xū yào liǎng gè rén pèi hé.
    This competition is a two-person event and requires teamwork.

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.

双 means two, 人 means person; together they describe something for two people.

Characters in this word

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

双 is made of two 又 parts side by side. Repeating 又 gives the sense of a pair.

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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.

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