烤箱 (kǎo xiāng) — oven | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

oven

Measure word · 台

Examples

烤箱。
Wǒ yòng kǎo xiāng kǎo le yí gè dàn gāo.
I baked a cake in the oven.
烤箱200。
Zhè ge kǎo xiāng de wēn dù xū yào diào dào 200 dù.
The temperature of this oven needs to be adjusted to 200 degrees.
烤箱。
Tā bǎ jī fàng jìn kǎo xiāng lǐ kǎo le sì shí fēn zhōng.
He put the chicken in the oven and roasted it for forty minutes.

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.

烤 (roast) and 箱 (box) combine as a roasting box.

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.

火考烤

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

考

考kǎo烤kǎo

Same sound today

烤 pairs 火 (fire) with 考, which supplies the sound; the fire part is used because the meaning involves heat or roasting.

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

𥫗相箱

Meaning part形符xíngfú

𥫗Written in full as竹zhúbamboo

Sound part声符shēngfú

相

相xiāng箱xiāng

Same sound today

箱 combines 竹, showing bamboo, with 相 as a sound part, to write a bamboo box or case.

Appears in

Kitchenware & Tableware

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