整套 (zhěng tào) — complete set, whole set | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

complete setwhole set

Measure word · 套

Examples

整套，。
Wǒ dìng le zhěng tào kè chéng, cóng rù mén dào gāo jí.
I signed up for a complete set of courses, from beginner to advanced.
整套，。
Zhè tào jiā jù shì zhěng tào, quē yí gè dōu bù hǎo kàn.
This set of furniture is a complete set — missing one piece doesn't look good.
整套，。
Tā sòng le wǒ zhěng tào xiāng shuǐ xiǎo yàng, měi píng dōu hěn tè bié.
He gave me a complete set of perfume samples, each bottle is very special.

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.

整 means whole or complete, and 套 is a set, so together they mean a complete set.

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.

敕正整

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

正

正zhèng整zhěng

Same sound today

整 pairs 敕 as the meaning side with 正 as the sound side.

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

大大dàlarge
長長chánglong

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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