信用社

xìnyòngshè

noun #53,952

Measure Word

一家信用社 jiā

Meanings

1 credit cooperative
2 credit union

Characters

society; cooperative

Examples

他在农村信用社办了一张卡。

Tā zài nóngcūn xìnyòngshè bàn le yī zhāng kǎ.

He opened a card at the rural credit cooperative.

很多县城只有信用社,没有大银行。

Hěnduō xiànchéng zhǐ yǒu xìnyòngshè, méiyǒu dà yínháng.

Many county towns only have credit cooperatives, not major banks.

Tips

culture

Usually short for 农村信用合作社 (Rural Credit Cooperative, RCC) — a locally-owned financial cooperative that historically served villages where state banks had no branches. Since 2003 many have been restructured into 农商银行 (Rural Commercial Banks), but in everyday speech rural depositors still say 信用社.

Stroke Order

信 xìn

用 yòng

社 shè