台球桌 (tái qiú zhuō) — billiards table

Definition

noun

billiards table

Measure word · 张

台球桌。
Nà jiā tái qiú guǎn lǐ yǒu yì zhāng tái qiú zhuō.
That billiard hall has a billiards table.
台球桌。
Tā bǎ tái qiú zhuō fàng zài dì xià shì le.
He placed the billiards table in the basement.
台球桌。
Zhè zhāng tái qiú zhuō de zhì liàng fēi cháng hǎo.
The quality of this billiards table is very good.

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.

台球billiards

偏正Modifier + head

台 and 球 form billiards, and 桌 denotes a table, so the name is a billiards table.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 臺; 台 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 台 stands for more than one traditional character. In most words (窗台, 电视台) it is 臺; in others (台灯, 台球) (台风) it is 檯 or 台 or 颱.

The traditional form 臺 is the 喬 + 室 form; earlier versions combined a sound part with 室, and an old reading saw it as a watch tower.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú

玉玉yùjade

Sound part声符shēngfú

求

Same sound today

球 is built from 玉, meaning jade, and 求, which gives the sound.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

桌 has 卓 on top, giving the sound and a sense of high, and 木 below, wood; the bottom of 卓 has merged into 木.

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