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浴场 (yù chǎng) — outdoor bathing area; bathing beach

Definition

noun
outdoor bathing areabathing beach
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 浴场。
    Xià tiān hěn duō rén qù yù chǎng yóu yǒng.
    Many people go to the bathing beach to swim in summer.
  • 浴场。
    Zhè ge yù chǎng de shā zi hěn xì.
    The sand at this bathing beach is very fine.
  • 浴场。
    Hǎi biān yǒu yí gè dà xíng yù chǎng.
    There is a large bathing area by the sea.

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.

浴yùbath
场chǎngplace

浴 indicates bathing and 场 indicates a place, naming a bathing place.

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
氵Written in full as水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
谷
谷gǔ浴yù
Same sound today

浴 shows 氵 (water) beside 谷, which gives the sound, for bathing in water.

Open 浴 →

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 →
Appears in
Outdoor Recreation

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