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墙上 (qiáng shǎng) — on the wall

Definition

noun
on the wall

Examples

  • 墙上。
    qiáng shǎng Guà zhe yì fú huà.
    A painting is hanging on the wall.
  • 墙上。
    Tā bǎ hǎi bào tiē zài qiáng shǎng.
    He pasted the poster on the wall.
  • 墙上。
    qiáng shǎng Yǒu yí gè hěn dà de dòng.
    There is a big hole in the wall.

Origin

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 牆; 墙 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
嗇嗇sèwheat in a granary
Sound part声符shēngfú
爿
爿pán牆qiáng
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In the traditional form 牆, 爿 gives the sound and 嗇, showing wheat in a granary, gives the wall meaning. The simplified 墙 is a later short form.

Open 墙 →

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

上 is drawn as a short horizontal line placed above a longer arc, marking a position above that arc.

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