清道夫 (qīng dào fū) — street cleaner (person); scavenger (esp. a species of aquarium fish that cleans algae)
Definition
Literally 'road-clearing man': a street cleaner who sweeps city streets, and by extension the common name for the algae-eating plecostomus (吸盘鱼) kept in aquariums.
noun
street cleaner (person)scavenger (esp. a species of aquarium fish that cleans algae)
Measure word · 个
Examples
- 清道夫，。Tā shì gè qīng dào fū, měi tiān líng chén jiù kāi shǐ gōng zuò.He is a street cleaner and starts work every day at dawn.
- 清道夫，。Wǒ zài yú gāng lǐ yǎng le yì tiáo qīng dào fū, tā fù zé qīng lǐ zǎo lèi.I keep a scavenger fish in my aquarium; it is responsible for cleaning algae.
- ，清道夫。Zài zhè bù diàn yǐng lǐ, zhǔ jué xiàng yí gè qīng dào fū yí yàng qīng lǐ chéng shì de lā jī.In this movie, the protagonist cleans up the city's garbage like a street cleaner.
Origin
Derived word构词法gòucífǎ
后缀hòuzhuìSuffix
A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.
清 (clean) and 道 (road) together with 夫 (person) form a street cleaner.
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