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敞篷车 (chǎng péng chē) — convertible car, open-top car

Definition

noun
convertible caropen-top car
Measure word · 辆

Examples

  • 敞篷车。
    Tā kāi le yí liàng chǎng péng chē qù dōu fēng.
    He drove a convertible to go for a ride.
  • 敞篷车。
    Zhè liàng chǎng péng chē de dǐng péng kě yǐ zì dòng dǎ kāi.
    The roof of this convertible can open automatically.
  • 敞篷车。
    Wǒ xiǎng mǎi yí liàng hóng sè de chǎng péng chē.
    I want to buy a red convertible.

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.

敞篷open canopy
敞chǎngopen篷péngcanopy
偏正Modifier + head
车chēvehicle

敞 means 'open', 篷 means 'canopy', and 车 means 'vehicle', together an open-canopy vehicle.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 敞 →

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
竹竹zhúbamboo
Sound part声符shēngfú
逢
逢féng篷péng
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

篷 pairs 竹 (bamboo) with 逢. The 竹 part connects the meaning to bamboo, and 逢 gives the sound.

Open 篷 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 車; 车 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 車 was drawn as a carriage seen from above, with wheels on both sides and a shaft at the front; the simplified 车 is a later shorthand.

Open 车 →
Appears in
Vehicles

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