手套 (shǒu tào) — glove; mitten | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

glovemitten

Measure word · 双, 只

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Dōng tiān qí zì xíng chē yào dài yì shuāng shǒu tào.
You should wear a pair of gloves when cycling in winter.
手套。
Zhè yì zhī shǒu tào bù zhī diào dào nǎ lǐ qù le.
This one glove — I don't know where it dropped.
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Wǒ xǐ wán shǒu jiù dài shàng shǒu tào.
I put on gloves right after washing my hands.

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.

The idea of 手 paired with 套 gives a cover for the hand, i.e. a glove.

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

手 draws a five-fingered human hand: the top line is a bent middle finger, and the horizontal lines show the other four fingers.

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

套 is made from 大 (large) and 長 (long), originally for something long, with some reference to hair; it later came to mean a cover or a linked group.

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