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银行业 (yín háng yè) — banking industry; banking sector

Definition

noun
banking industrybanking sector

Examples

  • ，银行业。
    Jìn nián lái, yín háng yè fā zhǎn hěn kuài.
    In recent years, the banking industry has developed very quickly.
  • 银行业。
    Tā zài yín háng yè gōng zuò le shí nián.
    She has worked in the banking sector for ten years.
  • 银行业。
    yín háng yè De jìng zhēng yuè lái yuè jī liè.
    Competition in the banking industry is getting more and more intense.

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.

银行bank
银yín行xíng
业yèindustry

银行业 pairs 银行, meaning bank, with 业 to name the banking industry.

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 銀; 银 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
金金jīnmetal
Sound part声符shēngfú
艮
艮gèn銀yín
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 銀 has 金, meaning metal, and 艮, used for the sound; the simplified 银 is a shorthand.

Open 银 →

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

  • 彳彳chì
  • 亍亍chù

The shape of 行 originally showed a street intersection, even on both sides. Later it became uneven, with 彳 on the left and 亍 on the right.

Open 行 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 業; 业 is its simplified writing.

  • 丵丵zhuóchisel
  • 大大dàperson; big

The traditional 業 is explained as a picture of a beam from which bells and chimes hang, or as a person lifting that beam. The simplified 业 is a shorthand, not the original shape.

Open 业 →
Appears in
Finance & Banking

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