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主场 (zhǔ cháng) — home field, home court (in sports); main venue, arena (for competitions)

Definition

主场 is the 'home' side of a sporting match — the field/court/arena that belongs to the team playing there, as opposed to 客场 (the opponent's venue). Often used with 比赛.

noun
home fieldhome court (in sports)main venuearena (for competitions)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 主场，。
    Jīn tiān wǒ men zài zhǔ cháng bǐ sài, hěn duō guān zhòng lái kàn.
    Today we are playing at home; many spectators came to watch.
  • 主场。
    Zhè ge qiú duì zài zhǔ cháng cóng lái bú huì shū.
    This team never loses at home.
  • ，主场。
    Yóu yú tiān qì yuán yīn, bǐ sài gǎi dào duì fāng de zhǔ cháng jìn xíng.
    Due to weather, the match was moved to the opponent's home ground.

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.

主zhǔhome/main
场chǎngvenue

主 (home/main) and 场 (venue) combine to mean the venue where a team plays.

Characters in this word

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

The old forms that became 主 showed a lamp or torch with a flame at the top; other forms showed wood on fire or a spirit tablet.

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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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Appears in
Sports & Athletics

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