西部片 (xī bù piān) — Western (film genre), cowboy movie | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

Western (film genre)cowboy movie

Measure word · 部

Examples

西部片。
Zhè bù xī bù piān fēi cháng hǎo kàn.
This Western is very good.
西部片？
Nǐ xǐ huan kàn xī bù piān ma?
Do you like watching Westerns?
西部片。
Wǒ zuó tiān kàn le yí bù jīng diǎn de xī bù piān.
I watched a classic Western yesterday.

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.

西部Western region

西xīwest部bùpart

偏正Modifier + head

西部 (western region) + 片 (film): a film associated with the West.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

Sound part声符shēngfú

咅

咅pǒu部bù

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

部 pairs 咅, which gives the sound, with 邑. It originally named a place in today's Gansu.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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