橡皮膏 (xiàng pí gāo) — adhesive plaster (medical tape) | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

adhesive plaster (medical tape)

Measure word · 卷

Examples

橡皮膏。
Wǒ qù yào diàn mǎi le yí juàn xiàng pí gāo.
I went to the pharmacy and bought a roll of adhesive plaster.
，橡皮膏。
Tā shòu shāng le, xū yào yòng xiàng pí gāo bāo zā shāng kǒu.
He was injured and needed to bandage the wound with adhesive plaster.
橡皮膏，。
Zhè zhǒng xiàng pí gāo nián xìng hěn hǎo, bù róng yì diào.
This type of adhesive plaster has good stickiness and doesn't come off easily.

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.

橡皮rubber

橡xiàngrubber tree皮pískin

偏正Modifier + head

膏gāoplaster

「橡皮」rubber and「膏」plaster together name an adhesive plaster.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

皮 shows a hand pulling fur off an animal pelt, with the pelt drawn at the upper left.

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

肉肉ròumeat

Sound part声符shēngfú

高

高gāo膏gào

Same sound today

膏 combines 高 as a sound part with 肉 (meat) as its meaning part.

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