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包装盒 (bāo zhuāng hé) — packaging box, gift box

Definition

noun
packaging boxgift box
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 包装盒。
    Zhè ge bāo zhuāng hé hěn piào liang.
    This packaging box is very beautiful.
  • 包装盒。
    Qǐng bǎ bāo zhuāng hé fàng zài zhuō zi shàng.
    Please put the packaging box on the table.
  • 包装盒。
    Zhè ge bāo zhuāng hé shì yòng zhǐ zuò de.
    This packaging box is made of paper.

Origin

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.

包装packaging
包bāowrap装zhuāngput in
联合Coordinate
盒hébox

包装 means wrapping and putting in, and 盒 is a box, giving the sense of a box for packaging.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 包 pictures a fetus in a womb, or a baby wrapped in cloth.

Open 包 →

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 裝; 装 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
衣衣yīclothes
Sound part声符shēngfú
壯
壯zhuàng裝zhuāng
Same sound today

The traditional form 裝 pairs 衣 (clothes) with 壯 as a sound part; this story is about 裝, not the simplified 装.

Open 装 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 盒 →
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