表演队 (biǎo yǎn duì) — performance team; troupe

Definition

noun
performance teamtroupe
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 表演队，。
    Zhè ge biǎo yǎn duì lái zì běi jīng, tā men biǎo yǎn le hěn duō jīng cǎi de jié mù.
    This performance team is from Beijing; they performed many wonderful shows.
  • 表演队。
    Xué xiào de biǎo yǎn duì zhè cì qù měi guó cān jiā yǎn chū.
    The school's performance team went to the US this time to participate in a show.
  • 表演队。
    Zhè ge biǎo yǎn duì de yǎn yuán men měi tiān dōu xùn liàn liù gè xiǎo shí.
    The performers in this performance team train for six hours every day.

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.

表演perform
表biǎodisplay演yǎnact
联合Side by side
队duìteam

表演, display and act together, joined with 队 makes a team that performs.

Characters in this word

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

The shape 表 pairs 衣 (garment) with 毛 (hair or feather), originally an outer garment.

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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
氵Written in full as水shuǐ
Sound part声符shēngfú
寅
寅yín演yǎn
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

演 pairs 氵 (water) with 寅, which gives the sound yín.

Open 演 →

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 →

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