月食 (yuè shí) — lunar eclipse | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

lunar eclipse

Measure word · 次

月食。
Jīn wǎn kě yǐ kàn dào yí cì wán zhěng de yuè shí.
You can see a complete lunar eclipse tonight.
月食。
yuè shí Fēn wéi yuè quán shí hé yuè piān shí liǎng zhǒng.
Lunar eclipses are divided into total and partial types.
月食。
Kē xué jiā tōng guò guān cè yuè shí lái yán jiū dì qiú de dà qì céng.
Scientists use lunar eclipse observations to study Earth's atmosphere.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

A small sentence frozen into a word: something, and what it does or is.

月 is the moon and 食 describes being swallowed by shadow, giving a lunar eclipse.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

月 was drawn as a crescent moon, with the curved outline showing the moon’s shape.

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

The form behind 食 shows 亼, a mouth, together with 皀, a bowl of rice on a stand. In modern 食, the bowl part has changed shape.

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