Learn Chinese for Free - Lesson 57
Today's Chinese characters:
职员牙探险家作
In this second day of our week dedicated to human occupations, you'll meet functionaries, workers, dentists, explorers, writers... and we add up more meanings to the character 作!
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Characters' Essentials
| - | Office, post, position |
| - | A person engaged in some field of activity |
| - | Tooth |
| - | Explore |
| - | A place difficult of access; danger |
| - | Family; home; a person or family engaged in a certain trade; a specialist in a certain field |
| - | Do, make; write, compose; writings, work |
Description and Examples
Did you see the definition of 职工? It was just like reading a real monolingual Chinese dictionary! You should be proud to have attained this level of Chinese understanding.
Article 3: 张家和王家我认识张家和王家。他们都是我的朋友。张刚是职员，他爱人是牙医师，张小海是留学生。王军和他爱人都是作家，他们两个儿子都是探险家。认识他们，我很高兴。 |
The meaning of: 张家和王家 家 after a surname indicates all the members of that family. So, we would translate 张家和王家 as "the Zhangs and the Wangs". |
Exercise
Make sentences with all the possible combinations and read until fluent.
你认识一个
职员
牙医师
探险家
作家
吗？
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Characters' Details
Chinese Character 123 of 1000
appearance score: # 616
frequency: 0.0337315%
This character has a different traditional version.
Chinese Character 124 of 1000
appearance score: # 200
frequency: 0.1034691%
| - | Member; (a person engaged in some field of activity) |
| - | (Measure word used for military officers) |
| - | Increase; numerous |
| - | (Used in person's name) |
| - | (A surname) |
This character has a different traditional version.
Chinese Character 125 of 1000
appearance score: # 997
frequency: 0.0162611%
There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.
Chinese Character 126 of 1000
appearance score: # 917
frequency: 0.0187231%
| - | Explore, try to find out, sound; call on, visit, see; stretch forward, stick out; inquire, bother about |
| - | Detective, scout, spy |
There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.
Chinese Character 127 of 1000
appearance score: # 672
frequency: 0.0299978%
| - | Dangerous, risky; sinister, vicious, venomous |
| - | A place difficult of access, narrow pass, defile; danger, peril, risk |
| - | Nearly, by inches, by a hair's breadth |
This character has a different traditional version.
Chinese Character 128 of 1000
appearance score: # 56
frequency: 0.2634518%
| - | Family, household; home; person engaged in a certain trade, family engaged in a certain trade; a specialist in a certain field; a school of thought; member of same clan; nationality |
| - | My (used to address one's relative that is senior in age) |
| - | Domestic, tame; internal |
| - | (Measure word used to count the number of families or enterprises) |
| - | (A surname) |
| - | (Used after a few nouns as suffix to indicate the belonging to that class of people) |
| - | (Used as suffix after a man's name or after the indication of seniority of a man among brothers to indicate his wife) |
| - | (Used as suffix added after adverbs of negation for emphasis) |
| - | (Used as suffix added after a few words to indicate that they are used as an adverbial modifier) |
There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.
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