颅腔 (lú qiāng) — cranial cavity | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

cranial cavity

CT颅腔。
Yī shēng tōng guò CT jiǎn chá le tā de lú qiāng.
The doctor examined his cranial cavity with a CT scan.
颅腔。
lú qiāng Nèi bù yǒu nǎo hé nǎo jǐ yè.
Inside the cranial cavity are the brain and cerebrospinal fluid.
颅腔。
Zhè cì chuāng shāng kě néng sǔn shāng le lú qiāng.
This trauma may have damaged the cranial cavity.

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.

颅 names the skull and 腔 the hollow space, giving the cavity inside the skull.

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 顱; 颅 is its simplified writing.

盧頁顱

Meaning part形符xíngfú

頁頁yèhead

Sound part声符shēngfú

盧

盧lú顱lú

Same sound today

The traditional form 顱 combines 頁, meaning head, with 盧, which gives the sound; the simplified 颅 is a later shorthand.

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.