打场 (dǎ cháng) — to thresh grain (on a threshing floor)

Definition

A separable verb meaning to thresh grain on a threshing floor (场上). Insert objects/quantities between 打 and 场, e.g. 打了两场. It is a rural/agricultural term, not used figuratively.

verb
to thresh grain (on a threshing floor)

Examples

  • 打场。
    Nóng mín men zài chǎng shàng dǎ cháng.
    The farmers are threshing grain on the threshing floor.
  • 。
    Jīn nián tā men dǎ le liǎng chǎng.
    This year they threshed twice.
  • ，。
    Dǎ wán chǎng, liáng shi jiù zhuāng dài le.
    After finishing the threshing, the grain was bagged.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

打dǎthresh
场chǎngthreshing ground

打 (thresh) and 场 (threshing ground) combine to mean threshing grain on a field.

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
扌Written in full as手shǒuhand
Sound part声符shēngfú
丁
丁dīng打dǎ
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

打 uses 扌, a hand, to show an action done with the hand, and 丁 to give the sound.

Open 打 →

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 場; 场 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
土土tǔearth
Sound part声符shēngfú
昜
昜yáng場chǎng
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 場 pairs 土 (earth) with 昜 as a sound part; the simplified 场 is a later abbreviation, so its parts do not have that historical role.

Open 场 →

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