培养皿 (péi yǎng mǐn) — petri dish; culture dish

Definition

noun

petri dishculture dish

Measure word · 个

，培养皿。
Shí yàn qián, suǒ yǒu péi yǎng mǐn dōu bì xū jīng guò gāo wēn xiāo dú.
Before the experiment, all petri dishes must be sterilized at high temperature.
培养皿。
Tā zài péi yǎng mǐn lǐ jiē zhòng le xì jūn yàng běn.
He inoculated the bacterial sample in the petri dish.
培养皿。
Zhè ge péi yǎng mǐn zhōng de jūn luò shēng zhǎng dé hěn kuài.
The colonies in this petri dish are growing very fast.

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.

培养cultivate

联合Coordinate

皿mǐndish

培养 means to cultivate, and 皿 is a shallow dish, so it names a dish for cultivating samples.

Characters in this word

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

土咅培

Meaning part形符xíngfú

土土tǔearth

Sound part声符shēngfú

咅

咅pǒu培péi

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

培 is made from 土 (earth) and 咅, which gives the sound.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 養; 养 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 養 uses 羊 as a sound part and 食 as a meaning part.

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

The shape of 皿 is a drawing of an empty vessel, like a chalice, with the handles joined together in the modern form.

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