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委员会

wěiyuánhuì

committee

A group of people examines a building model around a long table
Memory picture

Characters in this word

员 yuán

Strokes
7
Radical
口 — mouth
Made of
口 mouth 贝 sea shell
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

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

  • 专家委员会经过三轮论证,最终否决了风险过高的施工方案。 Zhuānjiā wěiyuánhuì jīngguò sān lún lùnzhèng, zuìzhōng fǒujuéle fēngxiǎn guò gāo de shīgōng fāng'àn. After three rounds of argument and evaluation, the expert committee ultimately rejected the construction plan because the risk was too high.
  • 委员会决定把比赛推迟到下个月举行。 Wěiyuánhuì juédìng bǎ bǐsài tuīchí dào xià gè yuè jǔxíng. The committee decided to postpone the competition to next month.
  • 学校的审核委员会今天下午开会讨论新规定。 Xuéxiào de shěnhé wěiyuánhuì jīntiān xiàwǔ kāihuì tǎolùn xīn guīdìng. The school's review committee is meeting this afternoon to discuss the new rules.

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