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每场 (měi cháng) — every (game/performance/event)

Definition

Every / each (game, performance, event). Pairs with the classifier 场 — used when each instance of a gathering or match is treated separately.

pronoun
every (game/performance/event)

Examples

  • 每场，。
    měi cháng Bǐ sài zhōng, duì yuán men dōu quán lì yǐ fù.
    In every game, the team members give it their all.
  • 每场。
    Zhè ge yǎn yuán měi cháng yǎn chū dōu tè bié tóu rù.
    This actor is especially devoted in every performance.
  • 每场。
    Gōng sī yāo qiú měi cháng huì yì dōu yào zuò jì lù.
    The company requires that minutes be taken at every meeting.

Origin

Characters in this word

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

每 shows 母, a woman, with a top part resembling 屮. That part may represent a hairpin marking her as grown up, or a sprout marking her as ready to marry and have children.

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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.

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