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头晕 (tóu yūn) — dizzy, giddy

Definition

verb
dizzygiddy

Examples

  • 头晕。
    Zuò chē shí jiān cháng le róng yì tóu yūn.
    Sitting in a car for a long time easily makes you dizzy.
  • 头晕。
    Tā fā gāo shāo de shí hou yì zhí tóu yūn.
    When he had a high fever, he was dizzy the whole time.
  • 。
    Zhè ge yào chī le huì ràng rén tóu yūn.
    Taking this medicine makes people dizzy.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

A small sentence frozen into a word: something, and what it does or is.

头tóuhead
晕yūndizzy

The 头 sense of head and 晕 sense of dizzy give a feeling of dizziness.

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 頭; 头 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
頁頁yèhead
Sound part声符shēngfú
豆
豆dòu頭tóu
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 頭 shows 頁, meaning head, beside 豆 as a sound component; the simplified 头 is a later shorthand.

Open 头 →

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 暈; 晕 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
日日rìSun
Sound part声符shēngfú
軍
軍jūn暈yùn
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 暈 first drew 日 (the sun) ringed by lines for a halo, and later paired 日 with the sound part 軍. The simplified 晕 is a later abbreviation.

Open 晕 →
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