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Meaning of 词素

词素 means morpheme; the smallest meaningful unit of a word. Pronounced cí sù.

  • morpheme; the smallest meaningful unit of a word

Definitions & Examples

Zài
yán
xué
zhōng
 
 
 
shì
gòu
de
běn
dān
wèi
 

In linguistics, the 'morpheme' is the basic unit of word formation.

 
rén
mín
 
zhè
ge
bāo
hán
le
 
rén
 
 
mín
 
liǎng
 

The word '人民' contains two morphemes: '人' and '民'.

Xiàng
 
zhuō
zi
 
de
 
zi
 
 
jiù
shì
hòu
zhuì
 

Like the '子' in '桌子', it is a suffix morpheme.

 
táo
 
shì
dān
 

'葡萄' is a single-morpheme word.

Fēn
yǒu
zhù
jiě
huì
de
gòu
chéng
 

Analyzing morphemes helps in understanding the structure and meaning of vocabulary.

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