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篮球场 (lán qiú chǎng) — basketball court

Definition

noun
basketball court
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 篮球场。
    Wǒ men xià wǔ qù lán qiú chǎng dǎ qiú ba.
    Let's go play basketball at the court this afternoon.
  • 篮球场，。
    Zhè ge lán qiú chǎng shì xīn jiàn de, fēi cháng piào liang.
    This basketball court is newly built and very beautiful.
  • 篮球场。
    Xué xiào hòu miàn yǒu yí gè hěn dà de lán qiú chǎng.
    There is a very large basketball court behind the school.

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.

篮球basketball
篮lánbasket球qiúball
偏正Modifier + head
场chǎngplace

篮 means basket and 球 means ball, making 篮球, while 场 names a 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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 籃; 篮 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
竹竹zhúbamboo
Sound part声符shēngfú
監
監jiān籃lán
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 籃 puts 竹 (bamboo) over 監, which gives the sound; the simplified 篮 is a later shorthand.

Open 篮 →

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
玉玉yùjade
Sound part声符shēngfú
求
求qiú球qiú
Same sound today

球 is built from 玉, meaning jade, and 求, which gives the sound.

Open 球 →

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
Ball Games

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