When pronounced in the second tone:
Tianjin "Water Drops Stadium"
1. Flat open space, mostly used for tanning and rolling grain. Examples: playing field, starting field, field full of wheat.
2. {dialect}Set; bazaar. Example: to catch a fair.
3. a quantifier used for the passage of things.
Examples: a penetrating rain, a big battle, an empty joy.
chǎng means a flat area where people gather and disperse. This sound and meaning are derived from "sunbathing on the flat ground". It is also used as a quantifier.
When pronounced in the third tone:
1. A relatively large place adapted to certain needs. Examples: meeting place, playground, market, theater, square.
2. stage. For example: on the field, off the field
3. Refers to a certain range of activities. For example: officialdom, fame and fortune, play on the stage.
4. The place where something happens. For example: on the spot, on the spot, present.
5. The whole scene of a performance or contest. Examples: opening, closing.
6. a smaller passage in a play, a piece of the story in each performance.
7. a quantifier, used in recreational and sporting activities.
For example, three ball games and a dance.
8. In a television receiver, the completion of an interlaced scan by an electron beam on an odd or even numbered line of a picture is called a field. The odd-numbered and even-numbered fields form a complete frame.
9. A fundamental form of material existence that has energy, momentum, and mass and that transmits interactions between physical objects. Examples include electric, magnetic, and gravitational fields.
Comes in "yang,暘"
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