夏夜 (xià yè) — summer night | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

summer night

Measure word · 个

夏夜。
xià yè De xīng kōng fēi cháng měi lì.
The starry sky on summer nights is very beautiful.
夏夜。
Wǒ men xǐ huan zài xià yè sàn bù.
We like to take walks on summer nights.
夏夜。
xià yè De fēng hěn liáng shuǎng.
The wind on summer nights is very cool.

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.

Summer and night combine for a night in summer.

Characters in this word

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

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

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

夕夕xīmoon

Sound part声符shēngfú

亦

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The form 夜 pairs 亦 as a sound part with 夕 as a moon part, for night. In the modern shape, the 亦 part is broken up and one stroke merges into 夕.

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