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欢庆 (huān qìng) — to joyfully celebrate (a holiday, event, milestone)

Definition

verb
to joyfully celebrate (a holiday, event, milestone)

Examples

  • 欢庆。
    Quán guó rén mín dōu zài huān qìng chūn jié.
    People all over the country are joyfully celebrating the Spring Festival.
  • 欢庆。
    Tā men huān qìng zhè cì chéng gōng jǔ bàn ào yùn huì.
    They joyfully celebrated the successful hosting of the Olympics.
  • 欢庆。
    Xué xiào jǔ xíng le shèng dà de yí shì huān qìng jiàn xiào yì bǎi zhōu nián.
    The school held a grand ceremony to joyfully celebrate its 100th anniversary.

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.

欢huānjoyfully
庆qìngcelebrate

欢 means joyfully and 庆 means celebrate; together they mean to celebrate with joy.

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 歡; 欢 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
欠欠qiàn
Sound part声符shēngfú
雚
雚guàn歡huān
Same sound today

The traditional form 歡 uses 雚 for the sound and 欠 for the meaning; the simplified 欢 is a later shorthand, so its parts do not carry that history.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 慶; 庆 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 庆 comes from the traditional 慶, which pairs 廌, drawn as an antelope, with 心, a heart; the heart part showed goodness or blessing, and obtaining such a beautiful animal was worth celebrating.

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Festivals & Holidays

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