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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

会签

Pronunciation / Transliteration: huìqiān

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Countersign/ˈkaʊn.tər.saɪn/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这项决定需要主管会签才能生效。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To sign a document already signed by another person, typically to authenticate, confirm, or validate its contents.

    "The director had to countersign the financial requisition before funds could be released."
As noun
  1. 1

    A secret password, signal, or sign given to a sentry to be allowed passage through a guarded area.

    "The guard demanded the countersign before allowing the patrol to enter the camp."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle French 'contresigner', from Medieval Latin 'contrasignare', combining the prefix 'contra-' (against, in turn) and 'signare' (to sign), dating back to the late 15th century. Originally used in administrative and legal contexts to denote adding a second signature to a document to authenticate or validate the first.

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