下腹 (xià fù) — lower abdomen | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

lower abdomen

下腹。
Tā gǎn dào xià fù yǒu xiē téng tòng.
He felt some pain in his lower abdomen.
下腹。
Yī shēng jiàn yì tā duō yùn dòng xià fù jī ròu.
The doctor advised her to exercise her lower abdominal muscles more.
下腹。
xià fù De pí fū bǐ jiào mǐn gǎn.
The skin of the lower abdomen is relatively sensitive.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

腹fùabdomen

下 means lower and 腹 means abdomen, together giving the lower abdomen.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

下 is drawn as a short horizontal line below a long curved line.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

肉肉ròumeat; flesh

Sound part声符shēngfú

复

复fù腹⁰fù

Same sound today

The left part 肉, meaning flesh, shows this is a body part, and the right part 复 gives the sound.