展览室 (zhǎn lǎn shì) — showroom, exhibition room, display room

Definition

noun
showroomexhibition roomdisplay room
Measure word · 间

Examples

  • 展览室。
    Zhè ge zhǎn lǎn shì lǐ chén liè zhe zuì xīn de chǎn pǐn.
    The latest products are displayed in this showroom.
  • ，。
    Wǒ men qù le liǎng gè zhǎn lǎn shì, kàn le hěn duō huà.
    We went to two exhibition rooms and saw many paintings.
  • 展览室，。
    zhǎn lǎn shì De dēng guāng tài àn le, kàn bù qīng chǔ.
    The lighting in the showroom is too dim to see clearly.

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Side by side
室shìroom

展 and 览 together form the idea of displaying and viewing, and 室 names the room where this happens.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
宀宀miánroof
Sound part声符shēngfú
至
至zhì室shì
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

室 puts 宀 (roof) over 至, the spot where someone stops, giving the meaning of a house or residence.

Open 室 →

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