彩图 (cǎi tú) — color illustration, color picture

Definition

noun

color illustrationcolor picture

Measure word · 张

彩图。
Zhè běn zá zhì de měi yì zhāng cǎi tú dōu hěn piào liang.
Every color picture in this magazine is beautiful.
彩图，。
Ér tóng shū lǐ yǒu hěn duō cǎi tú, hái zi hěn xǐ huan kàn.
Children's books have many color illustrations, and kids love to look at them.
彩图。
Jiào kē shū zhōng de cǎi tú kě yǐ bāng zhù xué shēng lǐ jiě nèi róng.
The color pictures in the textbook can help students understand the content.

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.

图túpicture

彩 gives the sense of color and 图 is a picture, together meaning a colored picture or illustration.

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.

采彡彩

Meaning part形符xíngfú

彡彡shān

Sound part声符shēngfú

采

Same sound today

彩 puts 采, which gives the sound, next to 彡, the three-stroke mark that carries the meaning.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 圖; 图 is its simplified writing.

囗啚圖

The traditional form 圖 pairs 囗, a walled city, with 啚, an early form meaning remote areas or territory. The simplified 图 is a later abbreviation.