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爵士舞 (jué shì wǔ) — jazz dance

Definition

noun
jazz dance
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 爵士舞。
    Wǒ zuì jìn zài xué jué shì wǔ.
    I've been learning jazz dance recently.
  • 爵士舞，。
    Tā tiào le wǔ nián de jué shì wǔ, dòng zuò fēi cháng zhuān yè.
    She has danced jazz for five years; her moves are very professional.
  • 爵士舞。
    Zhè suǒ wǔ dǎo xué xiào kāi shè le jué shì wǔ kè chéng.
    This dance school offers a jazz dance course.

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.

爵士jazz
爵jué士shì
音译Transliteration
舞wǔdance

“爵士” sounds like jazz and “舞” means dance, together naming a jazz dance.

Characters in this word

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

爵 originally pictured a sparrow-shaped wine vessel, sometimes with a hand holding it. In the modern form, the vessel's parts were reshaped and separated.

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

The shape 士 comes from a simple drawing of a war axe. The character later came to mean a soldier, officer, or intellectual.

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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
舛舛chuǎnsteps, feet in convergent direction
Sound part声符shēngfú
無
無wú舞wǔ
Same sound today

舞 combines 舛, showing feet in converging steps, with 無 above. 無 gave the sound and also preserved its older meaning of dancing, so the shape points to dancing.

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Appears in
Dance & Performance

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