校庆 (xiào qìng) — anniversary celebration of a school's founding

Definition

noun
anniversary celebration of a school's founding

Examples

  • ，校庆。
    Jīn nián shì wǒ men xué xiào jiàn xiào yì bǎi zhōu nián, jiāng zài shí yuè jǔ xíng xiào qìng.
    This year is the 100th anniversary of our school's founding; a celebration will be held in October.
  • 校庆。
    Hěn duō xiào yǒu dōu huí lái cān jiā zhè cì de xiào qìng.
    Many alumni have come back to attend this school anniversary.
  • 校庆。
    xiào qìng Nà tiān xué xiào ān pái le jīng cǎi de wén yì biǎo yǎn.
    On the day of the anniversary, the school arranged wonderful artistic performances.

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.

校xiàoschool
庆qìngcelebration

校 points to school and 庆 to celebration, giving a school's founding celebration.

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
木木mùtree
Sound part声符shēngfú
交
交jiāo校jiào
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

校 is built from 木 (tree) on the left and 交 on the right, which supplies the sound.

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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.

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