重现 (chóng xiàn) — to reappear, to recur | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

重现 is 'to reappear, to recur' — often for scenes, memories, or situations (e.g. past glory) coming back. Compare 复发 (illness/bad habits), 再现 (deliberately reconstructing a past scene), and 显现 (something becoming visible).

verb

to reappearto recur

Examples

重现。
Nà ge huà miàn yòu chóng xiàn le.
That image reappeared again.
重现。
Zhè zhǒng cuò wù bù néng zài chóng xiàn.
This kind of mistake cannot reappear.
重现。
Guò qù de huī huáng hěn nán chóng xiàn.
The glory of the past is hard to reappear.

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.

重 (again) and 现 (appear) combine to mean appearing again.

Characters in this word

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

Sound part声符shēngfú

東

東dōng重zhòng

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

重 developed from a picture of a man carrying a bag, with 人 for the man and 東 for the bag; a later ground element was folded into the form.

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 現; 现 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

玉玉yùjade

Sound part声符shēngfú

見

見jiàn現

Same sound today

The traditional form 現 pairs 玉 (jade) with 見 as a sound part; the simplified 现 is a shorthand, and its parts are not the historical parts.

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