监视器 (jiān shì qì) — monitor (electronic display)

Definition

noun

monitor (electronic display)

Measure word · 台

监视器。
Zhè ge jiān shì qì kě yǐ xiǎn shì qīng xī de tú xiàng.
This monitor can display clear images.
监视器，。
Bàn gōng shì de jiān shì qì huài le, xū yào xiū lǐ.
The monitor in the office is broken and needs repair.
监视器。
Tā yòng jiān shì qì guān chá bìng rén de xīn tiào.
He uses a monitor to observe the patient's heartbeat.

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.

监视monitor

联合Coordinate

The watching 监 and 视 combine with 器 device to name a monitor.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 監; 监 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 監 shows 臥, a person with an emphasized eye, looking into 皿, a container; the simplified 监 is a later shorthand.

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 視; 视 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

見見jiànsee

Sound part声符shēngfú

示

Same sound today

The story is about the traditional form 視: it combines 見, meaning see, with 示, which gives the sound shì.

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

The origin of 器 is uncertain; one traditional account reads the whole shape as a scene of guarding over four vessels.

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