HSK 5 · Sport

操场 cāochǎng “playground” in Chinese

Traditional 操場

What 操场 means

  1. playground
  2. sports field
  3. drill ground

Measure word 个 gè · 一个操场 yí ge cāochǎng

How to say 操场

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale操cāo1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale场chǎng3rd tone, dipping

操场 in a sentence

  1. 一群年轻人在操场上打手球。

    Yì qún niánqīngrén zài cāochǎng shàng dǎ shǒuqiú.

    A group of young people are playing handball on the sports field.

    Sentence #830476 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 操场 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 操 (cāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
操cāoto grasp
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 喿the sound of birds chirping · sàoSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 喿 (sào) hints at the sound. Compare it with cāo.

The character 场 (chǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
场chǎnglarge place used for a specific purpose
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 勿must not · wù

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 昜 (yáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with chǎng.

Memory aidEarth 土 gives the meaning: an open piece of ground.

How to write 操场

操 16 strokes · 场 6 strokes

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操场 (cāochǎng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 操场 (cāochǎng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 操场

Words with 操

操心cāoxīn · to worry about操练cāoliàn · to drill操纵cāozòng · to control操劳cāoláo · to work hard操作cāozuò · to operate

Words with 场

机场jīchǎng · airport商场shāngchǎng · shopping mall球场qiúchǎng · (sports) court场chǎng · measure word for events: a spell (of rain)广场guǎngchǎng · public square市场shìchǎng · marketplace当场dāngchǎng · on the spot场所chǎngsuǒ · place现场xiànchǎng · scene场合chǎnghé · occasion

More words: Sport & Leisure

钓diào · to fish with a hook and bait对手duìshǒu · opponent冠军guànjūn · champion合影héyǐng · to take a joint photo投掷tóuzhì · to throw选手xuǎnshǒu · competitor亚军yàjūn · runner-up阵容zhènróng · line-up (of a team or cast)

FAQs

操场 (cāochǎng) means “playground” or “sports field”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it cāochǎng: cāo with a 1st tone, then chǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 操场 is written 操場. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one playground is 一个操场 (yí ge cāochǎng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type caochang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 操场 from the suggestions. Typing caochang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
操场 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.