大村 (dà cūn) — big village | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

big village

Measure word · 个

Examples

大村。
Zhè ge dà cūn zhù zhe hěn duō lǎo rén.
Many elderly live in this big village.
大村。
Wǒ xiǎo shí hou zài dà cūn shēng huó guò jǐ nián.
I lived in a big village for a few years when I was young.
大村。
dà cūn De míng zì tīng qǐ lái hěn pǔ tōng.
The name 'Big Village' sounds very ordinary.

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.

村cūnvillage

大 'big' and 村 'village' describe a large village.

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.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

木寸村

Meaning part形符xíngfú

木木mùtree

Sound part声符shēngfú

寸

寸cùn村cūn

Same sound today

村 pairs 木 (tree) with 寸 as a sound hint; its origin is unclear.

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