观众席 (guān zhòng xí) — audience seating, spectator seats | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

audience seatingspectator seats

Measure word · 个

Examples

，观众席。
Bǐ sài kāi shǐ qián, guān zhòng xí lǐ yǐ jīng zuò mǎn le rén.
Before the match started, the audience seats were already full.
观众席。
Zhè ge jù yuàn de guān zhòng xí shè jì dé hěn shū shì.
The audience seating in this theater is designed to be very comfortable.
观众席。
Cóng guān zhòng xí kě yǐ qīng chǔ dì kàn dào wǔ tái shàng de biǎo yǎn.
From the spectator seats you can clearly see the performance on stage.

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.

观众audience

观guānwatch众zhòngcrowd

偏正Modifier + head

观众 (audience) + 席 (seats) names the seats where people watch an event.

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 觀; 观 is its simplified writing.

雚見觀

Meaning part形符xíngfú

見見jiànsee

Sound part声符shēngfú

雚

雚guàn觀guān

Same sound today

The traditional form 觀 uses 見 (see) for meaning and 雚 for sound.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 眾; 众 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 眾 shows three people under a sun-like shape, meaning a crowd gathered under the sun; the simplified 众 is a later shorthand.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

庶庶shù
巾巾jīn

席 originally showed a woven mat with an ornament. In 席, the mat became 巾, and a later sound part was written as 庶.

Appears in

Sports & Athletics

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