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展览会 (zhǎn lǎn huì) — exhibition (event or venue)

Definition

noun
exhibition (event or venue)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 展览会。
    Xià zhōu wǒ men yào qù cān jiā yí gè guó jì zhǎn lǎn huì.
    Next week we're going to attend an international exhibition.
  • 展览会。
    Zhè ge zhǎn lǎn huì xī yǐn le lái zì shì jiè gè dì de qǐ yè.
    This exhibition attracted companies from all over the world.
  • 展览会。
    zhǎn lǎn huì De guī mó bǐ qù nián dà le hěn duō.
    The exhibition's scale is much larger than last year's.

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.

展览exhibition
展zhǎndisplay览lǎnview
联合Coordinate
会huìevent

展览 covers showing and viewing, while 会 is an event, giving an event where things are exhibited.

Characters in this word

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
尸尸shī
Sound part声符shēngfú
𧝑
𧝑𧝑展zhǎn
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

展 is built from 尸 and 𧝑. The 𧝑 part points to fine red silk clothes and also contains the idea of opening or extending.

Open 展 →

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 覽; 览 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
見見jiànsee
Sound part声符shēngfú
監
監jiān覽lǎn
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 覽 uses 見, meaning see, for the sense and 監 for the sound; the simplified 览 is a later shorthand.

Open 览 →

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 會; 会 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
合合héto meet
Sound part声符shēngfú
𡆧
𡆧𡆧會huì
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

Traditional 會 pairs 合 (to meet) with 𡆧, an original form for ironware, to give the sound. The simplified 会 is a later shorthand, so its parts are not the original parts.

Open 会 →
Appears in
Art & Fine Arts

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