头皮屑 (tóu pí xiè) — dandruff | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

dandruff

头皮屑。
Tā tóu shàng yǒu hěn duō tóu pí xiè.
He has a lot of dandruff on his head.
头皮屑。
Zhè zhǒng xǐ fà shuǐ kě yǐ qù tóu pí xiè.
This shampoo can remove dandruff.
头皮屑。
tóu pí xiè Duō de shí hou yào zhù yì tóu pí qīng jié.
When you have a lot of dandruff, you should pay attention to scalp cleanliness.

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.

头皮scalp

偏正Modifier + head

头皮 is the skin on the head, and 屑 means small flakes, together describing dandruff.

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.

豆頁頭

Meaning part形符xíngfú

頁頁yèhead

Sound part声符shēngfú

豆

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.

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

皮 shows a hand pulling fur off an animal pelt, with the pelt drawn at the upper left.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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