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军乐队 (jūn yuè duì) — military band

Definition

noun
military band
Measure word · 支

Examples

  • 军乐队。
    jūn yuè duì Zài guó qìng diǎn lǐ shàng yǎn zòu le guó gē.
    The military band played the national anthem at the National Day ceremony.
  • 军乐队，。
    Tā jiā rù le xué xiào de jūn yuè duì, fù zé chuī xiǎo hào.
    He joined the school's military band and is responsible for playing the trumpet.
  • 军乐队。
    jūn yuè duì De biǎo yǎn yíng dé le guān zhòng de rè liè zhǎng shēng.
    The military band's performance won warm applause from the audience.

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.

军乐military music
军jūnarmy乐lèmusic
偏正Modifier + head
队duìband

军乐 is military music and 队 is a band, giving a military band.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 軍; 军 is its simplified writing.

  • 車車jūcart; chariot
  • 勹勹bāoto surround

In the traditional form 軍, 車 shows the chariot sense, while the part now written 勹 is a sound part, not the 'surround' 勹. Simplified 军 is a later shorthand.

Open 军 →

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.

Open 乐 →

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.

Open 队 →
Appears in
Military & DefenseMusic

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