双氧水 (shuāng yǎng shuǐ) — hydrogen peroxide solution | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

hydrogen peroxide solution

Examples

双氧水。
Yī shēng yòng shuāng yǎng shuǐ gěi shāng kǒu xiāo dú.
The doctor used hydrogen peroxide to disinfect the wound.
双氧水。
Zhè píng shuāng yǎng shuǐ de nóng dù shì bǎi fēn zhī sān.
The concentration of this bottle of hydrogen peroxide is three percent.
双氧水。
Xǐ yī fu shí jiā yì diǎn shuāng yǎng shuǐ kě yǐ piǎo bái.
Adding a little hydrogen peroxide when washing clothes can bleach them.

Origin

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.

双氧double oxygen

双shuāngdouble氧yǎngoxygen

偏正Modifier + head

双氧 points to two oxygen atoms, and 水 is the liquid solution.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

又又双

又又yòu
又又yòu

双 is made of two 又 parts side by side. Repeating 又 gives the sense of a pair.

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

气气qìgas

Sound part声符shēngfú

養

養yǎng氧yǎng

Same sound today

氧 pairs 气 (gas) with 養 (to nourish), and 養 gives the sound yǎng.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

水 is a simple drawing of water flowing.

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