舞厅
wǔ tīng · HSK 7
dance hall
💃🏠 舞厅 = 舞 dance + 厅 hall/large room — a dance hall
舞 — dancer with tassels 無 + opposing feet 舛
舞 is a pictograph of a person dancing while holding ox-tail tassels or feathered streamers in both hands; the upper part 無 originally depicted the dancer with ornaments, and 舛 below shows two feet stepping in opposite directions. When 無 was borrowed to mean 'not/none,' 舛 was added to preserve the original 'dance' meaning.
厅 — factory radical 厂 + ding 丁
厅 is the simplified form of 廳, originally written with the 广 (building) radical to mean a hall or large room. The simplified version uses 厂 as the semantic component (a shelter or building) plus 丁 as the phonetic, hinting at the sound tīng. It now means hall, lobby, or government office.