锁匠 (suǒ jiang) — locksmith | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

locksmith

Measure word · 个

，锁匠。
Wǒ jiā de mén suǒ huài le, xū yào qǐng yí gè suǒ jiang lái xiū.
The door lock at my home is broken; I need to call a locksmith to fix it.
锁匠。
Nà ge suǒ jiang hěn kuài jiù bāng wǒ pèi hǎo le xīn yào shi.
That locksmith quickly made a new key for me.
锁匠，。
Wǒ men xiǎo qū mén kǒu yǒu gè suǒ jiang, fú wù hěn hǎo.
There's a locksmith at the entrance of our residential complex, and the service is very good.

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.

锁 is a lock and 匠 is a craftsman; together they mean a person who works with locks.

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 鎖; 锁 is its simplified writing.

金𧴪鎖

Meaning part形符xíngfú

金金jīnmetal

Sound part声符shēngfú

𧴪

𧴪𧴪鎖suǒ

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 鎖 pairs 金 (metal) with a sound component, 𧴪; the simplified 锁 is a shorthand, and its parts are not the original parts.

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

匚斤匠

Traditionally, 匠 combines 匚, a box, with 斤, an axe.

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