每户 (měi hù) — every household, each household

Definition

pronoun
every householdeach household

Examples

  • 每户。
    Zhèng fǔ gěi měi hù fā fàng le bǔ tiē.
    The government gave subsidies to every household.
  • 每户。
    Zhè ge xiǎo qū měi hù dōu yǒu dú lì de yáng tái.
    Every household in this residential area has a separate balcony.
  • ，每户200。
    Diào chá xiǎn shì, měi hù píng jūn měi yuè yòng diàn liàng shì 200 dù.
    The survey shows that each household uses an average of 200 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month.

Origin

Characters in this word

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

每 shows 母, a woman, with a top part resembling 屮. That part may represent a hairpin marking her as grown up, or a sprout marking her as ready to marry and have children.

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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 戶; 户 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 戶 is a picture of half of a gate. The simplified 户 is a later shorthand, so its shape should not be read as the original parts.

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