车场 (chē chǎng) — parking lot, car park

Definition

noun
parking lotcar park
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 车场。
    Zhè ge chē chǎng néng tíng hěn duō chē.
    This parking lot can hold a lot of cars.
  • 车场。
    Wǒ de chē tíng zài chē chǎng de rù kǒu chù.
    My car is parked at the entrance of the parking lot.
  • 车场。
    Nǐ cóng chē chǎng dōng bian de chū kǒu chū qù.
    You go out from the east exit of the parking lot.

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.

车chēvehicle
场chǎngyard

车 means vehicle and 场 means yard, so the word names a place for vehicles.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 車; 车 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 車 was drawn as a carriage seen from above, with wheels on both sides and a shaft at the front; the simplified 车 is a later shorthand.

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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
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