腹腔 (fù qiāng) — abdominal cavity | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

abdominal cavity

腹腔。
Shǒu shù xū yào qiē kāi fù qiāng.
The surgery requires opening the abdominal cavity.
腹腔。
Yī shēng zài fù qiāng nèi fā xiàn le zhǒng liú.
The doctor found a tumor inside the abdominal cavity.
腹腔。
fù qiāng Jī yè de bìng rén xū yào lì jí zhì liáo.
Patients with abdominal cavity effusion need immediate treatment.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

肉肉ròumeat; flesh

Sound part声符shēngfú

复

复fù腹⁰fù

Same sound today

The left part 肉, meaning flesh, shows this is a body part, and the right part 复 gives the sound.

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

腔 is made from 肉 (meat; flesh) plus 空 (empty; hollow), where 空 supplies the sound.

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