主队 (zhǔ duì) — home team (in sports) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

The team playing on its own field or court, as opposed to the visiting 客队. Used mainly in sports reporting.

noun

home team (in sports)

Measure word · 支

Examples

主队，。
Jīn tiān zhǔ duì de biǎo xiàn fēi cháng hǎo, yíng dé le bǐ sài.
Today the home team performed very well and won the match.
主队，。
Zuò wéi zhǔ duì, tā men zài zhǔ chǎng qiú mí miàn qián tī dé hěn zì xìn.
As the home team, they played confidently in front of their home fans.
主队。
zhǔ duì De jiào liàn zài sài hòu jiē shòu le cǎi fǎng.
The home team's coach gave an interview after the game.

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 means home, 队 means team, so 主队 is the home team.

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.

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.

Appears in

Sports & Athletics

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