场 (chǎng) counts events that take place at one time and place: a match, a film showing, a concert, a wedding, a war. Read cháng, it counts a spell of something that comes and goes, such as rain or an illness, though many speakers say chǎng for both.
- 一场比赛a match
- 一场电影a film showing
- 一场大雨a heavy rain
48 nouns that take 场
Most common first比赛competition (sports etc); match电影movie; film球ball; sphere表演play; show游戏game; to play梦dream; (bound form) to dream病illness; disease婚礼wedding ceremony; wedding战争war; conflict演出to act (in a play); to perform戏trick; drama运动to move; to exercise会议meeting; conference舞会dance; ball战斗to fight; to engage in combat雨rain觉a nap; a sleep打架to fight; to scuffle恋爱(romantic) love; in love车祸traffic accident; car crash雪snow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)游泳池swimming pool官司lawsuit感冒to catch cold; (common) cold争论to argue; to debate音乐会concert雾fog; mist辩论debate; argument大火conflagration; large fire骗局a swindle; a trap歌剧Western opera球赛(ball sports) game; match拍卖会auction闹剧farce暴风雪snowstorm; blizzard大雨heavy rain杂技acrobatics暴雨torrential rain; rainstorm大风gale风波disturbance; crisis冰雹hail; hailstone单打singles (in sports)虚惊false alarm; panic rumor接力赛relay race网球赛tennis match; tennis competition双打doubles (in sports)京剧Beijing opera文艺演出theatrical performance
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The nouns come from the measure-word notes in CC-CEDICT, ordered by how often each word appears in film and TV subtitles. Many nouns take more than one measure word, and 个 often works in casual speech.
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