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奥斯卡奖 (ào sī kǎ jiǎng) — Academy Award; Oscar (film award)

Definition

Transliteration of the 'Academy Awards' (Oscars) — the annual American film industry prizes. The measure word 座 emphasizes it as a major, prestigious award.

noun
Academy AwardOscar (film award)
Measure word · 座

Examples

  • 奥斯卡奖。
    Hěn duō rén dōu xǐ huan kàn ào sī kǎ jiǎng bān jiǎng diǎn lǐ.
    Many people enjoy watching the Oscars ceremony.
  • 奥斯卡奖。
    Zhè bù diàn yǐng huò dé le zuì jiā wài yǔ piàn ào sī kǎ jiǎng.
    This movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
  • 奥斯卡奖。
    ào sī kǎ jiǎng Měi nián dōu xī yǐn quán qiú yǐng mí de guān zhù.
    The Oscars attract the attention of film fans around the world every year.

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.

奥斯卡Oscar
奥ào斯sī卡kǎ
奖jiǎngaward

奥斯卡 spells the name Oscar and 奖 means award; together they name the Academy Award.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

卡 is made from 上 (up) and 下 (down), with their horizontal lines fused, showing something squeezed between above and below.

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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 獎; 奖 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
犬犬quǎndog
Sound part声符shēngfú
將
將jiāng獎jiǎng
Same sound today

The traditional form 獎 pairs 將 as a sound part with 犬, a dog; the simplified 奖 is a later shorthand. The evidence says the dog part's meaning is unclear, perhaps referring to guiding a dog by voice.

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Appears in
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