日场 (rì cháng) — daytime performance, matinee (theater, cinema, sports)

Definition

A matinee or daytime performance — the day-time showing of a show or sporting event, as opposed to 晚场 (evening show).

noun
daytime performancematinee (theater, cinema, sports)
Measure word · 场
Easily confused

Examples

  • 日场，。
    Wǒ men mǎi le liǎng zhāng rì cháng de piào, xià wǔ sān diǎn qù kàn.
    We bought two matinee tickets and will go at 3 pm.
  • 日场。
    Zhè chǎng gē jù de rì cháng bǐ wǎn chǎng pián yi bù shǎo.
    The matinee of this opera is a lot cheaper than the evening show.
  • 日场。
    rì cháng De guān zhòng yǐ lǎo nián rén hé xué shēng wéi zhǔ.
    The daytime performance audience is mainly elderly people and students.

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.

日rìday
场chǎngperformance

日 means day and 场 means a performance, so it denotes a daytime performance.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

日 originally drew the sun. A mark was added inside to tell it apart from similar square shapes.

Open 日 →

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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