森警 (sēn jǐng) — forest ranger; forest police officer | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

forest rangerforest police officer

Measure word · 名

Examples

森警。
Nà wèi sēn jǐng yǐ jīng zài lín qū gōng zuò le èr shí nián.
That forest ranger has been working in the forest region for twenty years.
森警，。
sēn jǐng Měi tiān dōu yào xún luó, fáng zhǐ sēn lín huǒ zāi.
Forest rangers patrol every day to prevent forest fires.
森警。
Dāng dì zhèng fǔ zēng jiā le yì bǎi míng sēn jǐng lái bǎo hù shēng tài.
The local government added one hundred forest rangers to protect the ecology.

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.

森 suggests forest and 警 means police, so it is forest police.

Characters in this word

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

The form 森 stacks three tree-like shapes to show many trees in a forest.

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

敬言警

Meaning part形符xíngfú

言言yánspoken language, speech

Sound part声符shēngfú

敬

Same sound today

警 places 言 (speech) below 敬; 敬 gives the sound.

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