复兴党 (Fù xīng dǎng) — Baath Party

Definition

noun
Baath Party
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 复兴党。
    Fù xīng dǎng Shì xù lì yà de zhǔ yào zhèng dǎng zhī yī.
    The Baath Party is one of Syria's main political parties.
  • 复兴党。
    Fù xīng dǎng Zài ā lā bó shì jiè yǒu zhòng yào yǐng xiǎng.
    The Baath Party has significant influence in the Arab world.
  • 复兴党。
    Tā jiā rù Fù xīng dǎng yǐ jīng èr shí nián le.
    He joined the Baath Party twenty years ago.

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.

复兴revival
复fùrevive兴xīngflourish
联合Side by side
党dǎngparty

复兴 conveys revival and flourishing, and 党 names the organization devoted to that idea.

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 復; 复 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 复 stands for more than one traditional character. In most words (复习, 恢复) it is 復; in others (复印, 复杂) (答复, 反复) it is 複 or 覆.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
彳彳chìwalk
Sound part声符shēngfú
复
复fù復fù
Same sound today

The traditional form 復 combines 彳, a walking part, with 复, a sound part, to show walking back and forth.

Open 复 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 興; 兴 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 興 shows four hands lifting an object; the simplified 兴 is not the form described.

Open 兴 →

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
儿儿érhuman
Sound part声符shēngfú
尚
尚shàng党dǎng
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

党 pairs 尚, giving its sound, with 儿, a human.

Open 党 →

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