护肩 (hù jiān) — shoulder pad; shoulder padding | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

shoulder padshoulder padding

Measure word · 个

Examples

护肩。
Zhè jiàn yī fu de hù jiān tài hòu le.
The shoulder pads on this jacket are too thick.
护肩。
Tā mǎi le yí gè xīn de hù jiān lái bǎo hù jiān bǎng.
He bought a new shoulder pad to protect his shoulder.
护肩。
Gǎn lǎn qiú yùn dòng yuán dōu dài zhe hù jiān.
American football players all wear shoulder pads.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

护hùprotect

肩jiānshoulder

护 means protect and 肩 means shoulder; together they name a pad for protecting the shoulder.

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.

扌户护

Meaning part形符xíngfú

扌Written in full as手shǒu

Sound part声符shēngfú

户

户hù护hù

Same sound today

护 combines 扌 (the hand form 手) with 户, which gives the sound hù.

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

肩 combines a shoulder shape with a flesh part to show a shoulder.

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