话剧团 (huà jù tuán) — drama troupe; theatre company

Definition

noun
drama troupetheatre company
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 话剧团。
    Zhè ge huà jù tuán xià ge yuè yào yǎn yì chū xīn xì.
    This drama troupe is going to perform a new play next month.
  • 话剧团。
    Tā cóng xiǎo jiù xiǎng jiā rù huà jù tuán.
    She has wanted to join a theatre company since she was young.
  • 话剧团。
    huà jù tuán De yǎn yuán men měi tiān dōu zài pái liàn.
    The actors of the drama troupe rehearse every day.

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.

话剧drama
话huàspeech剧jùdrama
偏正Modifier + head
团tuántroupe

话 means speech and 剧 means drama, so 话剧 denotes spoken drama; 团 adds the sense of a group of performers.

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 話; 话 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
言言yánword
Sound part声符shēngfú
𠯑
𠯑𠯑話huà
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In the traditional form 話, 言 relates to words and 𠯑 gives the sound; the simplified 话 is a shorthand, so its right side is not that sound part.

Open 话 →

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 劇; 剧 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
刀刀dāoknife
Sound part声符shēngfú
豦
豦jù劇jù
Same sound today

The traditional form 劇 pairs 豦, which gives the sound, with 刀, a knife; the simplified 剧 is a later shorthand.

Open 剧 →

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 團; 团 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
囗囗wéi
Sound part声符shēngfú
專
專zhuān團tuán
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The form 團 combines 囗 as a meaning part with 專 as a sound part; the story is about 團, not about 团.

Open 团 →

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