播放器 (bō fàng qì) — media player, player (device or app for playing… | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

media playerplayer (device or app for playing audio/video)

Measure word · 个

Examples

播放器。
Wǒ zài wǎng shàng mǎi le yì tái xīn bō fàng qì.
I bought a new media player online.
播放器。
Zhè ge bō fàng qì de yīn zhì fēi cháng hǎo.
The sound quality of this player is very good.
播放器4K？
Nǐ yòng de bō fàng qì kě yǐ bō fàng 4K shì pín ma?
Can the player you use play 4K video?

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.

播放play

播bōbroadcast放fàngplay

联合Coordinate

器qìdevice

播 “broadcast” + 放 “play” + 器 “device” make a device for playing audio or video.

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.

扌番播

Meaning part形符xíngfú

扌Written in full as手shǒuhand

Sound part声符shēngfú

番

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

播 is built from 扌, a hand radical, plus 番 as a sound part. The hand part marks it as something done by hand.

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

方攵放

Meaning part形符xíngfú

攵Written in full as攴pūhand, action

Sound part声符shēngfú

方

方fāng放fàng

Same sound today

放 uses 方 for its sound and 攵, a hand/action part, to mark an action of release.

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

The origin of 器 is uncertain; one traditional account reads the whole shape as a scene of guarding over four vessels.

Appears in

Computers & Internet

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