仪仗队 (yí zhàng duì) — honor guard; guard of honor

Definition

noun

honor guardguard of honor

Measure word · 支

Examples

，仪仗队。
Yíng jiē wài guó yuán shǒu shí, yí zhàng duì zhàn zài hóng tǎn liǎng páng.
When welcoming foreign heads of state, the honor guard stands on both sides of the red carpet.
，仪仗队。
Guó qìng yuè bīng shì shàng, yí zhàng duì mài zhe zhěng qí de bù fá tōng guò guǎng chǎng.
During the National Day parade, the guard of honor marched across the square in neat steps.
仪仗队。
Nà wèi shì bīng yīn wèi biǎo xiàn yōu yì bèi xuǎn rù le yí zhàng duì.
That soldier was selected into the honor guard because of his excellent performance.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

仪仗ceremonial weapons

仪yíceremony仗zhàngweapons

偏正Modifier + head

队duìteam

仪 is ceremony, 仗 is weapons, and 队 is a group; together they form an honor guard.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 儀; 仪 is its simplified writing.

亻義儀

Meaning part形符xíngfú

亻Written in full as人rén

Sound part声符shēngfú

義

義yì儀yí

Same sound today

In the traditional form 儀, the left part 亻 shows a person, and the right part 義 supplies the sound. This description is about 儀, not the simplified 仪.

Open 仪 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 仗 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 隊; 队 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

阜阜fù

Sound part声符shēngfú

㒸

㒸㒸隊duì

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 隊 has 阜 as the meaning part and 㒸 as the sound part.