手工艺品 (shǒu gōng yì pǐn) — handicraft; handicraft product

Definition

noun

handicrafthandicraft product

Measure word · 件

手工艺品，。
Zhè xiē shǒu gōng yì pǐn dōu shì shǒu gōng zhì zuò de, fēi cháng jīng zhì.
These handicrafts are all handmade and very delicate.
手工艺品。
Tā xǐ huan shōu jí gè guó de chuán tǒng shǒu gōng yì pǐn.
She likes to collect traditional handicrafts from various countries.
手工艺品。
Zhè jiā diàn lǐ mài de shì shǎo shù mín zú de shǒu gōng yì pǐn.
This shop sells handicrafts from ethnic minorities.

Characters in this word

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

手 draws a five-fingered human hand: the top line is a bent middle finger, and the horizontal lines show the other four fingers.

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

The shape of 工 is a picture of a bladed tool used to plow ground or mark a border; some read it as a carpenter's square.

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

艹乙艺

Meaning part形符xíngfú

艹Written in full as艸cǎo

Sound part声符shēngfú

乙

Same sound today

In 艺, the top 艹 points to plants, and the lower 乙 gives the sound.

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

品 repeats the same simple shape three times, representing various objects.

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