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俱乐部 (jù lè bù) — club (organisation or premises)

Definition

俱乐部 is a loanword for an organized group or its premises (a club), like a sports or social club. Compared to 社团 (more general association, often campus-based), 俱乐部 implies a formal club with a physical place and members.

noun
club (organisation or premises)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 俱乐部。
    Tā jiā rù le yí gè jù lè bù.
    He joined a club.
  • 俱乐部。
    Zhè ge jù lè bù yǒu hěn duō huì yuán.
    This club has many members.
  • 俱乐部。
    Wǒ men zhōu mò qù jù lè bù de yóu yǒng chí yóu yǒng.
    On weekends we go to the club's swimming pool to swim.

Origin

Single-morpheme word
构词法gòucífǎ
音译yīnyìTransliteration

The characters spell the sound of a foreign word; their individual meanings play no part.

俱jù
乐lè
部bù

The characters 俱乐部 only spell the foreign word club; they do not carry their own meanings here.

Sound-only characters

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
亻Written in full as人rén
Sound part声符shēngfú
具
具jù俱jù
Same sound today

俱 pairs 亻, a form of 人 (person), with 具 as the sound part.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 樂; 乐 is its simplified writing.

In the traditional form 樂, 絲 (string) with 木 (wood) shows strings on a piece of wood, a musical instrument; the simplified 乐 is a later shorthand.

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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
邑邑yì
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.

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