诗社 (shī shè) — poetry club | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

poetry club

Measure word · 个

诗社，。
Tā jiā rù le xué xiào de shī shè, měi zhōu dōu xiě shī.
He joined the school's poetry club and writes poems every week.
诗社。
shī shè De chéng yuán men cháng cháng zài yì qǐ tǎo lùn gǔ rén shī cí.
The members of the poetry club often discuss ancient poetry together.
诗社。
Zhè ge shī shè yǐ jīng yǒu sān shí nián de lì shǐ le.
This poetry club already has a history of thirty years.

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.

A society for poems or poets, with 诗 meaning 'poem' and 社 meaning 'society'.

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 詩; 诗 is its simplified writing.

言寺詩

Meaning part形符xíngfú

言言yánspeech

Sound part声符shēngfú

寺

寺sì詩shī

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 詩 combines 言 (speech) with 寺 as a sound part, because poetry is a kind of speech; the simplified 诗 is a later abbreviation.

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

社 joins 示 (god; deity) and 土 (soil), so its shape is about the god of the land.