Peculiarities of the formation of animated non-significant using suffixing in the modern chinese language

This article is devoted to the study of the features of the formation of animate nouns with the help of suffixation in modern Chinese. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that this phenomenon is widespread in the word formation of the modern Chinese language and takes the second place in the productivity of the forming of both new lexical units and various forms of the word. In this regard, this article is aimed at identifying productive affixes that serve as material for the formation of such nouns. The article presents constructions with affixive morphemes, on the basis of which nouns are formed, the lexical features of each of the suffixes are revealed, new constructions are revealed, on the basis of which new nouns are formed, were analyzed the lexical features of forming the nouns using these morphemes.