旁听席

旁聽席
pángtīngxí
noun #36,515

Meanings

  1. 1 public gallery (in a court or assembly)
  2. 2 visitor's seats / observer seats

Examples

Jìzhěmen dōu zuò zài pángtīngxí shàng.
The journalists were all seated in the public gallery.
Fǎtíng de pángtīngxí zuò wú xū xí.
Every seat in the courtroom's public gallery was filled.

Tips

usage
Built from 旁听 (pángtīng, 'to audit / sit in on') + ('seat'). Used for the spectator section of courts, parliaments, and other formal proceedings — and also for the seats in a classroom set aside for non-enrolled auditors.

Stroke Order

páng
tīng