升降台 (shēng jiàng tái) — lifting platform, elevating platform (e.g., sci…

Definition

noun

lifting platformelevating platform (e.g., scissor lift, hydraulic lift)

Measure word · 台

升降台。
Gōng rén yòng shēng jiàng tái bǎ huò wù yùn dào gāo chù.
Workers use a lifting platform to transport goods to a high place.
升降台。
Zhè ge shēng jiàng tái kě yǐ shēng gāo dào shí mǐ.
This lifting platform can rise to ten meters.
升降台。
Wǔ tái xià miàn ān zhuāng le shēng jiàng tái.
A lifting platform was installed under the stage.

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.

升降rise and lower

联合Side by side

台táiplatform

升 and 降 describe moving up and down, and 台 is the platform that does this.

Characters in this word

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

The shape comes from a drawing of a standard dipper used to measure one 升.

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

阝夅降

Meaning part形符xíngfú

阝Written in full as阜fùhill, wall

Sound part声符shēngfú

夅

夅jiàng降xiáng

Same sound today

降 pairs 阝 (a hill or wall, written in full as 阜) with 夅, a sound part meaning 'to descend'; together they picture descending a hill.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 臺; 台 is its simplified writing.

The simplified 台 stands for more than one traditional character. In most words (窗台, 电视台) it is 臺; in others (台灯, 台球) (台风) it is 檯 or 台 or 颱.

The traditional form 臺 is the 喬 + 室 form; earlier versions combined a sound part with 室, and an old reading saw it as a watch tower.