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庆祝会 (qìng zhù huì) — celebration party; commemorative event

Definition

noun
celebration partycommemorative event
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 庆祝会，。
    Gōng sī měi nián dōu jǔ bàn yí cì qìng zhù huì, biǎo zhāng yōu xiù yuán gōng.
    The company holds a celebration party every year to recognize outstanding employees.
  • 庆祝会。
    Xué xiào wèi bì yè bān zǔ zhī le yì chǎng lóng zhòng de qìng zhù huì.
    The school organized a grand celebration event for the graduating class.
  • 庆祝会。
    Wǒ men quán jiā zài fàn diàn lǐ kāi le yí gè xiǎo xiǎo de qìng zhù huì.
    Our whole family had a small celebration party at the restaurant.

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.

庆祝celebrate
庆qìngcelebrate祝zhùwish
联合Coordinate
会huìgathering

庆祝 names the act of celebrating, and 会 is the gathering held for it.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 慶; 庆 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 庆 comes from the traditional 慶, which pairs 廌, drawn as an antelope, with 心, a heart; the heart part showed goodness or blessing, and obtaining such a beautiful animal was worth celebrating.

Open 庆 →

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

祝 shows a kneeling person with an open mouth beside an altar.

Open 祝 →

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 →
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