支票簿 (zhī piào bù) — checkbook | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

checkbook

Measure word · 本

支票簿。
Qǐng bǎ zhī piào bù dì gěi wǒ.
Please hand me the checkbook.
支票簿，。
Wǒ de zhī piào bù yòng wán le, xū yào qù yín háng mǎi yì běn xīn de.
My checkbook is used up; I need to go to the bank to buy a new one.
支票簿，。
Tā fān kāi zhī piào bù, qiān le yì zhāng zhī piào.
He opened the checkbook and signed a check.

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.

支票check

动宾Verb + object

支票 means check and 簿 means book, so it is a book for checks.

Characters in this word

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

又十支

支 pairs 又 (hand) with 十, a shortened form of 竹 (bamboo), to picture a bamboo branch.

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

票 combines 火 (fire) and 𢍱 (to rise high), originally representing sparks rising up.

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

竹溥簿

Meaning part形符xíngfú

竹竹zhúbamboo

Sound part声符shēngfú

溥

溥pǔ簿bù

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

簿 used for book, pairs 竹 (bamboo) with 溥; 竹 is the meaning part and 溥 gives the sound.

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