旅游者 (lǚ yóu zhě) — tourist; traveler

Definition

noun

touristtraveler

Measure word · 位

旅游者。
Měi nián yǒu dà liàng lǚ yóu zhě lái zhè ge chéng shì guān guāng.
A large number of tourists come to visit this city every year.
旅游者。
Zhè xiē lǚ yóu zhě zài gǔ jiàn zhù qián pāi le hěn jiǔ de zhào piàn.
These tourists took photos in front of the ancient building for a long time.
，旅游者。
Dāng dì zhèng fǔ yīng gāi bǎo hù huán jìng, tóng shí xī yǐn gèng duō lǚ yóu zhě.
The local government should protect the environment while attracting more tourists.

Derived word

构词法gòucífǎ

后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

旅游travel

联合Side by side

旅游 describes traveling, and 者 names a person who travels.

Characters in this word

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

旅 combines 㫃, a flag, and 从, two people, to show troops or a brigade.

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

Sound part声符shēngfú

斿

斿yóu游yóu

Same sound today

游 combines 水 (water) with 斿, which gives the sound yóu and also relates to travelling.

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

The form 者 originally drew a sugarcane with full stems, small points around it, and an open smiling mouth at the bottom.