队名 (duì míng) — team name | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

team name

Measure word · 个

Examples

队名“”。
Wǒ men duì de duì míng jiào "fēi hǔ duì".
Our team's name is "Flying Tigers".
队名。
Zhè ge duì míng zhēn yǒu yì si.
This team name is really interesting.
队名。
Tā zhèng zài xiǎng yí gè xīn duì míng.
He is thinking of a new team name.

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.

队 and 名 combine: the 名 of a 队, hence team name.

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 隊; 队 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

阜阜fù

Sound part声符shēngfú

㒸

㒸㒸隊duì

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 隊 has 阜 as the meaning part and 㒸 as the sound part.

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

夕口名

夕夕xīcrescent moon
口口kǒumouth

名 puts 夕 (crescent moon) above 口 (mouth), showing a name spoken in the dark.

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