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巡逻车 (xún luó chē) — patrol car

Definition

noun
patrol car
Measure word · 辆

Examples

  • 巡逻车。
    Nà liàng xún luó chē zhèng zài jiē dào shàng xún luó.
    That patrol car is patrolling the street.
  • 巡逻车。
    Jǐng chá tōng guò xún luó chē shàng de jiān kòng xì tǒng chá kàn qíng kuàng.
    The police checked the situation via the surveillance system on the patrol car.
  • 巡逻车。
    Zhè liàng xīn xíng xún luó chē pèi bèi le xiān jìn de ān quán shè bèi.
    This new patrol car is equipped with advanced safety equipment.

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.

巡逻patrol
巡xúnpatrol逻luópatrol/search
联合Coordinate
车chēvehicle

巡逻 means to patrol, and 车 is a vehicle, so the word is a vehicle used for patrolling.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
辵辵chuòwalk
Sound part声符shēngfú
川
川chuān巡xún
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

巡 pairs 辵, a walking part, with 川 as a sound part.

Open 巡 →

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 邏; 逻 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
辶Written in full as辵chuòwalk
Sound part声符shēngfú
羅
羅luó邏luó
Same sound today

The traditional form 邏 combines 辶, meaning walk, with 羅 for the sound; the simplified 逻 is a later shorthand.

Open 逻 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 車; 车 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 車 was drawn as a carriage seen from above, with wheels on both sides and a shaft at the front; the simplified 车 is a later shorthand.

Open 车 →
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