保护膜 (bǎo hù mó) — protective film, screen protector, protective c…

Definition

noun

protective filmscreen protectorprotective coating

Measure word · 张

保护膜。
Wǒ de shǒu jī píng mù shàng tiē le yì zhāng bǎo hù mó.
I put a screen protector on my phone's screen.
保护膜。
Zhè zhǒng bǎo hù mó kě yǐ fáng zhǐ wù pǐn biǎo miàn bèi guā huā.
This kind of protective film can prevent the surface of objects from being scratched.
，保护膜。
Yùn shū shí, xiāng zi wài miàn dōu jiā le yī céng bǎo hù mó.
During shipping, an extra layer of protective film was added to the outside of the boxes.

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.

保护protect

联合Side by side

保 and 护 both mean protect, and 膜 is a thin layer; together they describe a film that protects.

Characters in this word

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

保 originally showed a person 人 carrying a child 子 on their back, which led to the sense of protecting.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

扌户护

Meaning part形符xíngfú

扌Written in full as手shǒu

Sound part声符shēngfú

户

Same sound today

护 combines 扌 (the hand form 手) with 户, which gives the sound hù.

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

⺼Written in full as肉ròu

Sound part声符shēngfú

莫

Same sound today

膜 combines ⺼ (written in full as 肉) with 莫, which gives the character its sound.