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基金会

jījīnhuì

foundation

A person giving a schoolchild a red bag of coins
Memory picture

Characters in this word

基 jī

Strokes
11
Radical
土 — soil, earth
Made of
其 his, her, its, their 土 soil, earth
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 基

金 jīn

Strokes
8
Radical
金 — gold, metal
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

会 huì

Strokes
6
Radical
人 — man, person
Made of
人 man, person 云 cloud
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 这家基金会要求所有受助项目公开预算,以降低慈善资源被滥用的风险。 Zhè jiā jījīnhuì yāoqiú suǒyǒu shòuzhù xiàngmù gōngkāi yùsuàn, yǐ jiàngdī císhàn zīyuán bèi lànyòng de fēngxiǎn. This foundation requires all funded projects to disclose their budgets in order to reduce the risk of charitable resources being abused.
  • 他们成立了一个基金会,专门帮助山区的孩子读书。 Tāmen chénglì le yí ge jījīnhuì, zhuānmén bāngzhù shānqū de háizi dúshū. They set up a foundation specifically to help children in mountain areas go to school.
  • 这家基金会每年都会资助几十名大学生。 Zhè jiā jījīnhuì měi nián dōu huì zīzhù jǐ shí míng dàxuéshēng. This foundation supports several dozen university students every year.

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