大亨 (dà hēng) — tycoon; wealthy and powerful businessperson

Definition

noun
tycoonwealthy and powerful businessperson
Measure word ·

Examples

  • 大亨
    Tā shì yí wèi fáng dì chǎn dà hēng.
    He is a real estate tycoon.
  • 大亨
    Zhè wèi dà hēng juān le hěn duō qián gěi xué xiào.
    This tycoon donated a lot of money to the school.
  • 大亨
    Méi tǐ dà hēng kòng zhì le duō jiā bào zhǐ.
    The media tycoon controls several newspapers.

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.

hēngprosperous

大 means big and 亨 conveys prosperity, together giving a great tycoon.

Characters in this word

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

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

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

亨 is drawn as an ancestral shrine.

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