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床罩 (chuáng zhào) — bedspread; bed cover

Definition

noun
bedspreadbed cover
Measure word · 床

Examples

  • 床罩。
    Tā de chuáng shàng pù zhe yì tiáo piào liang de chuáng zhào.
    There is a beautiful bedspread spread on her bed.
  • 床罩，。
    Wǒ xǐ huan mián zhì de chuáng zhào, yīn wèi hěn shū fu.
    I like cotton bedspreads because they are very comfortable.
  • 床罩。
    Zhè ge chuáng zhào de yán sè hé chuāng lián hěn dā pèi.
    The color of this bedspread matches the curtains well.

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.

床chuángbed
罩zhàocover

床 (bed) and 罩 (cover) combine to mean a cover placed over a bed.

Characters in this word

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

The 床 shape combines 广, a house, and 木, tree, to show a wooden bed inside a house.

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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
罒Written in full as网wǎng
Sound part声符shēngfú
卓
卓zhuó罩zhào
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

罩 combines 罒, a form of 网 “net”, with 卓, which gives the sound.

Open 罩 →
Appears in
Home & Housing

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