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夏令营 (xià lìng yíng) — summer camp

Definition

noun
summer camp
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 夏令营。
    Zhè ge xià lìng yíng yǒu hěn duō yǒu yì si de huó dòng.
    This summer camp has a lot of interesting activities.
  • 夏令营。
    Dì di dì yī cì lí kāi jiā qù cān jiā xià lìng yíng.
    My little brother left home for the first time to attend summer camp.
  • 夏令营。
    Tā zài xià lìng yíng lǐ xué huì le yóu yǒng hé zuò fàn.
    She learned to swim and cook at summer camp.

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.

夏令summer season
夏xiàsummer令lìngseason
偏正Modifier + head
营yíngcamp

The '夏令' summer season and '营' camp combine to mean a camp held in summer.

Characters in this word

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

  • 日日rìsun
  • 頁頁yèhead; man

Some scholars connect 夏 to 日 (sun) and 頁 (head; man), reading it as a man under the sun, but this is uncertain.

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

  • 亼亼jí
  • 卩卩jié

In 令, the upper 亼 is an open mouth and the lower 卩 is a kneeling person, together showing someone giving orders.

Open 令 →

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 營; 营 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
宮宮gōngpalace
Sound part声符shēngfú
熒
熒yíng營yíng
Same sound today

The traditional form 營 pairs 宮 (palace) with 熒 as a sound part, depicting a person working all night with a light on his house; the simplified 营 is a later abbreviation.

Open 营 →
Appears in
HSK 3.0 Level 6HSK 2.0 Level 6Outdoor Recreation

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