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篮球队 (lán qiú duì) — basketball team

Definition

noun
basketball team
Measure word · 支

Examples

  • 篮球队。
    Tā shì xiào lán qiú duì de duì zhǎng.
    He is the captain of the school basketball team.
  • 篮球队。
    Wǒ men lán qiú duì míng tiān yǒu yì chǎng bǐ sài.
    Our basketball team has a match tomorrow.
  • 篮球队。
    Zhè zhī lán qiú duì yǐ jīng lián xù sān nián huò dé guàn jūn le.
    This basketball team has won the championship three years in a row.

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.

篮球basketball
篮lánbasket球qiúball
偏正Modifier + head
队duìteam

篮 (basket) and 球 (ball) form basketball, naming the kind of 队 (team).

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 籃; 篮 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
竹竹zhúbamboo
Sound part声符shēngfú
監
監jiān籃lán
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 籃 puts 竹 (bamboo) over 監, which gives the sound; the simplified 篮 is a later shorthand.

Open 篮 →

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
求qiú球qiú
Same sound today

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

Open 球 →

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 隊; 队 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
阜阜fù
Sound part声符shēngfú
㒸
㒸㒸隊duì
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 隊 has 阜 as the meaning part and 㒸 as the sound part.

Open 队 →
Appears in
Ball Games

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