护校 (hù jiào) — nursing school

Definition

noun
nursing school
Measure word · 所

Examples

  • 护校。
    Tā zài yì suǒ hù jiào xué xí hù lǐ.
    She is studying nursing at a nursing school.
  • 护校。
    Zhè suǒ hù jiào de bì yè shēng jiù yè lǜ hěn gāo.
    The employment rate of graduates from this nursing school is very high.
  • 护校。
    Tā bì yè hòu huí dào jiā xiāng de hù jiào dāng lǎo shī.
    After graduation, he returned to his hometown to teach at a nursing school.

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.

护hùnurse
校xiàoschool

护 gives the nursing idea and 校 gives the school idea, together naming a nursing school.

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
扌Written in full as手shǒu
Sound part声符shēngfú
户
户hù护hù
Same sound today

护 combines 扌 (the hand form 手) with 户, which gives the sound hù.

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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
木木mùtree
Sound part声符shēngfú
交
交jiāo校jiào
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

校 is built from 木 (tree) on the left and 交 on the right, which supplies the sound.

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