旋转门 (xuán zhuǎn mén) — revolving door

Definition

noun

revolving door

Measure word · 扇

旋转门。
Gōng sī dà lóu de xuán zhuǎn mén fēi cháng xiān jìn.
The revolving door in the company building is very advanced.
旋转门，。
Tā tuī le yí xià xuán zhuǎn mén, rán hòu zǒu le jìn qù.
He pushed the revolving door and walked in.
，旋转门。
Zài shāng chǎng lǐ, wǒ kàn dào le yí gè piào liang de xuán zhuǎn mén.
In the mall, I saw a beautiful revolving door.

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.

旋转revolve

联合Side by side

旋转 describes turning around, and 门 is a door, so it is a door that revolves.

Characters in this word

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

旋 combines 㫃 (a flag), 止 (a foot), and 〇 (a circle), and 〇 also gave the sound.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 轉; 转 is its simplified writing.

車專轉

Meaning part形符xíngfú

車車jūcarriage

Sound part声符shēngfú

專

專zhuān轉zhuǎn

Same sound today

The traditional form 轉 combines 車, a carriage, with 專 as a sound part; the simplified 转 is a later shorthand.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 門; 门 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 門 pictures a gate as two door shapes side by side; the simplified 门 is a later shorthand.

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