教学片 (jiào xué piàn) — educational film; instructional video | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

educational filminstructional video

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Examples

教学片。
Lǎo shī yòng jiào xué piàn jiǎng shì jiè lì shǐ.
The teacher used an educational film to explain world history.
教学片。
Zhè bù jiào xué piàn hěn shì hé xīn shǒu xué xí.
This instructional video is great for beginners to learn from.
教学片。
Xué xiào mǎi le hěn duō xīn de yīng yǔ jiào xué piàn.
The school bought many new English educational videos.

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.

教学teaching and learning

教jiàoteach学xuélearn

联合Side by side

The teaching-learning sense of 教学 tells what kind of 片 is meant: a film.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

子子zǐchild

攵Written in full as攴pūteaching cane; stick that represents authority

Sound part声符shēngfú

爻

爻yáo教jiào

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

教 uses 爻 for its sound and puts 子 (child) with 攵 (攴), a teaching cane, to show teaching a child.

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 學; 学 is its simplified writing.

爻爻yáo
六六liù

The traditional form 學 may have used 爻 and 六 for sound, with hands and a child added later; the simplified 学 is a shorthand.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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