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滑冰场 (huá bīng cháng) — skating rink, ice rink

Definition

noun
skating rinkice rink
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 滑冰场，。
    Zhè ge huá bīng cháng hěn dà, kě yǐ tóng shí róng nà hěn duō rén.
    This skating rink is very big and can hold many people at the same time.
  • 滑冰场。
    Zhōu mò wǒ men yì qǐ qù huá bīng cháng huá bīng ba.
    Let's go skating at the skating rink this weekend.
  • 滑冰场。
    Zhè ge huá bīng cháng de bīng miàn fēi cháng guāng huá.
    The ice surface of this skating rink is very smooth.

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.

滑冰skate
滑huáslide冰bīngice
动宾Verb + object
场chǎngplace

滑冰 is skating and 场 is a place, so the word names a place for skating.

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
水水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
骨
骨gǔ滑huá
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

滑 pairs 水 (water) with 骨, which gives the sound.

Open 滑 →

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
水水shuǐ
Sound part声符shēngfú
冫
仌bīng冰bīng
Same sound today

冰 adds 水 (water) to 冫, the short form of 仌; 冫 gives the sound, and 水 shows the meaning.

Open 冰 →

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
Sports & Athletics

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