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收益 (shōu yì) — earnings, profit (from a business or job); (investment) return, yield

Definition

收益 focuses on the return or yield gained from an investment or business activity. Compared with 利润 and 盈利 (both purely accounting profit), 收益 is broader and covers non-financial gains too; 收入 is the raw income before costs.

noun
earningsprofit (from a business or job)(investment) returnyield

Examples

  • 收益。
    Zhè ge yuè de shōu yì bǐ shàng ge yuè gāo le hěn duō.
    This month's earnings are much higher than last month's.
  • 收益。
    Tóu zī gǔ piào kě yǐ huò dé bú cuò de shōu yì.
    Investing in stocks can get good returns.
  • 收益。
    Gōng sī jīn nián de shōu yì mù biāo shì zēng zhǎng bǎi fēn zhī èr shí.
    The company's profit target this year is to grow by twenty percent.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

收shōureceive
益yìprofit

收益: 收 receive and 益 profit combine to mean received profit or earnings.

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
攴攴pū
Sound part声符shēngfú
丩
丩jiū收shōu
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

收 uses 攴 to show an action and 丩 as a sound clue; the old meaning was 'to arrest.'

Open 收 →

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

益 puts 水 (water) above 皿 (a vessel), originally showing water overflowing the vessel.

Open 益 →
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HSK 3.0 Level 6HSK 2.0 Level 6Finance & Banking

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