旅游车 (lǚ yóu chē) — tourist bus / sightseeing bus

Definition

noun
tourist bus / sightseeing bus
Measure word · 辆

Examples

  • 旅游车。
    Wǒ men zuò lǚ yóu chē qù cháng chéng.
    We take a tourist bus to the Great Wall.
  • 旅游车。
    Zhè liàng lǚ yóu chē shì xīn de.
    This tourist bus is new.
  • 旅游车。
    Měi tiān zǎo shàng dōu yǒu lǚ yóu chē cóng jiǔ diàn chū fā.
    Every morning there is a tourist bus departing from the hotel.

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.

旅游travel
旅lǚtravel游yóutour
联合Side by side
车chēvehicle

旅 “travel,” 游 “tour,” and 车 “vehicle” together mean sightseeing bus.

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.

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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
水水shuǐwater
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.

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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.

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