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广场

guǎngchǎng

public square

A person in an open square
Memory picture

Characters in this word

广 guǎng

Strokes
3
Radical
广 — broad, vast, wide
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

场 chǎng

Strokes
6
Radical
土 — soil, earth
Made of
土 soil, earth 勿 must not, do not
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 场

Example phrases

  • 广场上人很多。 Guǎngchǎng shàng rén hěn duō. There are many people in the square.
  • 我们去广场吧。 Wǒmen qù guǎngchǎng ba. Let us go to the square.
  • 广场很大。 Guǎngchǎng hěn dà. The square is very big.

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