玻璃板 (bō li bǎn) — glass plate; pane; platen

Definition

noun
glass platepaneplaten
Measure word · 块

Examples

  • 玻璃板，。
    Zhè kuài bō li bǎn hěn hòu, bù róng yì suì.
    This glass plate is very thick and not easy to break.
  • 玻璃板。
    Shí yàn shì de bō li bǎn shàng fàng zhe xiǎn wēi jìng.
    There is a microscope on the glass pane in the lab.
  • 玻璃板。
    Gōng rén xiǎo xīn yì yì dì bǎ bō li bǎn bān jìn cāng kù.
    The workers carefully moved the glass plate into the warehouse.

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.

玻璃glass
玻bō璃lí
联绵Bound pair
板bǎnplate

玻璃 names the material and 板 names the flat piece, together meaning a plate of glass.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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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
王Written in full as玉yùjade
Sound part声符shēngfú
离
离lí璃
Same sound today

In 璃, the left side 王 is jade, written in full as 玉, and the right side 离 gives the sound lí.

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
木木mùtree
Sound part声符shēngfú
反
反fǎn板bǎn
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

板 pairs 木 (tree) with 反 as a sound part.

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