巨富 (jù fù) — enormous wealth, a fortune; multimillionaire, extremely wealthy person

Definition

巨富 (jùfù) names an extremely wealthy person, written/formal in tone and stronger than the everyday 富人. It can also refer to the huge fortune itself.

noun
enormous wealtha fortunemultimillionaireextremely wealthy person
Easily confused

Examples

  • 巨富，。
    Nà bǐ yí chǎn shì yì bǐ jù fù, zú gòu tā jǐ dài rén xiǎng yòng.
    That inheritance is an enormous fortune, enough for several generations of his family to enjoy.
  • 巨富。
    Zhè wèi jù fù juān chū le dà bàn jiā chǎn yòng yú cí shàn shì yè.
    This multimillionaire donated most of his family fortune to charity.
  • ，巨富。
    Tā bái shǒu qǐ jiā, zuì zhōng chéng le běn dì yǒu míng de jù fù.
    He started from scratch and eventually became a well-known multimillionaire in the area.

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.

巨jùhuge
富fùwealth

巨 means huge and 富 means wealth, together naming enormous wealth or a very rich person.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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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
宀宀mián
Sound part声符shēngfú
畐
畐fú富fù
Same sound today

富 pairs 宀, a roof-shaped part, with 畐, which gives the sound fú.

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