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退场 (tuì cháng) — to leave (a venue/event); to walk off (in protest)

Definition

退场 means to leave or walk off from an event — the players exiting a match, an audience clearing out, or a protest walkout. It emphasizes physically leaving a venue or performance space, not quitting a job or organization.

verb
to leave (a venue/event)to walk off (in protest)

Examples

  • 退场。
    Guān zhòng kàn wán diàn yǐng hòu lù xù tuì cháng.
    The audience slowly left after the movie ended.
  • 。
    Tā gāng tuì le yì chǎng zhòng yào de huì yì.
    He just walked out of an important meeting.
  • 退场。
    Duì yuán men tuì cháng yǐ shì duì cái pàn de bù mǎn.
    The team members walked off in protest against the referee.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

退tuìwithdraw
场chǎngvenue

Withdrawing from a venue: 退, to retreat, and 场, the scene or place, give the sense of leaving.

Characters in this word

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

  • 皀皀jífood vessel
  • 夊夊suīdownward foot

退 originally showed 皀, a food vessel, with 夊, a downward foot, for leaving the table after eating. In modern 退, the vessel part 皀 changed into an unrelated shape.

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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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 場; 场 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
土土tǔearth
Sound part声符shēngfú
昜
昜yáng場chǎng
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 場 pairs 土 (earth) with 昜 as a sound part; the simplified 场 is a later abbreviation, so its parts do not have that historical role.

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