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全场 (quán chǎng) — the whole audience; all those present; the entire court (in sports like basketball, tennis, etc.)

Definition

Two main senses: "the whole audience / everyone present" (at a show, speech, stadium), and in sports like basketball/tennis, "the full court." Match the meaning to context — a person counts as 全场 only when they're part of a crowd.

noun
the whole audienceall those presentthe entire court (in sports like basketball, tennis, etc.)

Examples

  • 全场。
    Tā de yǎn jiǎng ràng quán chǎng xiǎng qǐ rè liè de zhǎng shēng.
    His speech made the whole audience break into warm applause.
  • 全场。
    Tā zài lán qiú chǎng shàng pǎo le zhěng zhěng quán chǎng.
    He ran the entire length of the basketball court.
  • 全场。
    quán chǎng Qǐ lì wèi tā gǔ zhǎng.
    The whole audience stood up to applaud him.

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.

全quánwhole
场chǎngvenue

全 means whole and 场 means venue, so it covers the entire place or people there.

Characters in this word

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

The shape puts 入 together with 玉 to show a whole piece of jade, so it means complete or whole.

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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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