赞美诗 (zàn měi shī) — hymn (religious song of praise); psalm (biblica…

Definition

noun

hymn (religious song of praise)psalm (biblical song of praise)

Measure word · 首

赞美诗。
Wǒ men zài jiào táng chàng le yì shǒu zàn měi shī.
We sang a hymn in church.
赞美诗《》。
Wǒ zuì xǐ huan de zàn měi shī shì 《qí yì ēn diǎn》.
My favorite hymn is "Amazing Grace."
赞美诗。
Zhè běn zàn měi shī jí shōu jí le hěn duō chuán tǒng gē qǔ.
This hymnbook collects many traditional songs.

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.

赞美praise

联合Coordinate

诗shīpoem/song

赞 and 美 both mean praise, and 诗 is a song or poem, so the sense is a song of praise.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 贊; 赞 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 赞 stands for more than one traditional character. In most words (称赞, 赞赏) it is 讚; in others (赞成, 赞同) it is 贊.

This note is about the traditional form 贊. It pairs 㚘 with 貝 (money) for helping with money; the simplified 赞 is a shorthand.

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

美 shows 大, a person, wearing 羊, a headdress of feathers or ram's horn.

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.

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