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大厅 (dà tīng) — hall, large room (in a building)

Definition

大厅 is a big public hall inside a building — like a hotel lobby, school hall, or airport concourse — bigger and more public than a 客厅 (private living room).

noun
halllarge room (in a building)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 大厅。
    Kè rén zài dà tīng lǐ děng wǒ men.
    The guests are waiting for us in the hall.
  • 大厅。
    Xué xiào dà tīng zhèng zài jǔ xíng huì yì.
    The school hall is holding a meeting.
  • 大厅。
    Zhè ge dà tīng kě yǐ zuò wǔ bǎi rén.
    This hall can seat five hundred people.

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.

大dàlarge
厅tīnghall

The first character means large and the second means hall; together they refer to a big hall inside a building.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

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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 廳; 厅 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
广广guǎnghouse
Sound part声符shēngfú
聽
聽tīng廳tīng
Same sound today

The traditional form 廳 pairs 广 (house) with 聽, which gives the sound; the simplified 厅 is a shorthand and its parts are not the original ones.

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