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足球场 (zú qiú chǎng) — football field; soccer field

Definition

noun
football fieldsoccer field
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 足球场。
    Míng tiān wǒ men qù zú qiú chǎng tī qiú ba.
    Let's go play ball at the soccer field tomorrow.
  • 足球场。
    Zhè ge zú qiú chǎng kě yǐ róng nà liǎng wàn rén.
    This football field can hold twenty thousand people.
  • 足球场。
    Xué xiào páng biān xīn jiàn le yí gè zú qiú chǎng.
    A new soccer field was built next to the school.

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.

足球football
足zúfoot球qiúball
偏正Modifier + head
场chǎngfield

足球 'football' plus 场 'field' gives a field for football.

Characters in this word

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

足 was originally drawn as a leg.

Open 足 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
玉玉yùjade
Sound part声符shēngfú
求
求qiú球qiú
Same sound today

球 is built from 玉, meaning jade, and 求, which gives the sound.

Open 球 →

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 場; 场 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
土土tǔearth
Sound part声符shēngfú
昜
昜yáng場chǎng
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 場 pairs 土 (earth) with 昜 as a sound part; the simplified 场 is a later abbreviation, so its parts do not have that historical role.

Open 场 →
Appears in
Ball GamesSports & Athletics

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