膀胱 (páng guāng) — (urinary) bladder | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

(urinary) bladder

Measure word · 个

Examples

膀胱。
Yī shēng jiǎn chá le tā de páng guāng.
The doctor examined her bladder.
膀胱。
páng guāng Shì chǔ cún niào yè de qì guān.
The bladder is the organ that stores urine.
膀胱。
Tā yīn wèi páng guāng wèn tí zhù jìn le yī yuàn.
He was hospitalized due to a bladder problem.

Origin

Single-morpheme word

构词法gòucífǎ

联绵liánmiánBound pair

Two characters that only ever appear together, spelling one ancient two-syllable word.

胱guāng

The characters 膀 and 胱 carry no independent meaning here; together they name the urinary bladder.

Sound-only characters

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

旁

旁páng膀pāng

Same sound today

The left part 肉 is flesh; the right part 旁 gives the sound.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Appears in

Organs & Anatomy

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