节目单 (jié mù dān) — program (for a performance or event); playbill

Definition

noun

program (for a performance or event)playbill

Measure word · 张

Examples

节目单。
Zhè chǎng yǎn chū de jié mù dān shàng liè chū le suǒ yǒu yǎn yuán de míng zì.
The program for this performance lists all the actors' names.
节目单？
Nǐ ná dào jīn wǎn yīn yuè huì de jié mù dān le ma?
Did you get the program for tonight's concert?
节目单。
Qǐng zǐ xì kàn jié mù dān shàng de shí jiān ān pái.
Please carefully look at the schedule on the program.

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.

节目program

节jiésection目mùitem

联合Coordinate

单dānlist

节目 combines section and item, and 单 is a list sheet.

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 節; 节 is its simplified writing.

⺮即節

Meaning part形符xíngfú

⺮Written in full as竹zhúbamboo

Sound part声符shēngfú

即

即jí節jié

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

The traditional form 節 pairs ⺮ (bamboo) with 即, which gives the sound; the bamboo part points to a node of bamboo. The simplified 节 is a later abbreviation.

Open 节 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

目 began as a drawing of a human eye, turned sideways.

Open 目 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 單; 单 is its simplified writing.

The form 單 originally pictured a Y-shaped wooden stick with two stones on top.

Open 单 →

Appears in

Film & Theater

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