祝酒辞 (zhù jiǔ cí) — toast speech, remarks made when proposing a toa… | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

toast speech, remarks made when proposing a toast

Measure word · 篇

Examples

，祝酒辞。
Hūn lǐ shàng, xīn láng de fù qīn fā biǎo le gǎn rén de zhù jiǔ cí.
At the wedding, the groom's father gave a moving toast speech.
祝酒辞，。
Tā de zhù jiǔ cí jiǎn duǎn ér yōu mò, yíng dé le dà jiā de zhǎng shēng.
His toast speech was short and humorous, winning everyone's applause.
，祝酒辞。
Yàn huì kāi shǐ qián, zhǔ rén xiān zhì le zhù jiǔ cí.
Before the banquet began, the host first delivered a toast speech.

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.

祝酒toast

祝zhùtoast酒jiǔwine

动宾Verb + object

辞císpeech

祝酒 means to toast with wine, and 辞 means speech; the word names a toast speech.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

祝 shows a kneeling person with an open mouth beside an altar.

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

Sound part声符shēngfú

酉

酉yǒu酒jiǔ

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

酒 pairs 酉, the original picture for this word, with 水 (water), added later to distinguish it.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Appears in

Alcohol & Tobacco Communication & Speech

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