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水床 (shuǐ chuáng) — water bed

Definition

noun
water bed
Measure word · 张

Examples

  • 水床。
    Wǒ mǎi le yì zhāng shuǐ chuáng.
    I bought a water bed.
  • 水床。
    Tā xǐ huan shuì shuǐ chuáng.
    He likes sleeping on a water bed.
  • 水床。
    Zhè ge shuǐ chuáng hěn shū fu.
    This water bed is very comfortable.

Origin

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.

水shuǐwater
床chuángbed

水 means water and 床 means bed, a bed filled with water.

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

水 is a simple drawing of water flowing.

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

The 床 shape combines 广, a house, and 木, tree, to show a wooden bed inside a house.

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Appears in
Furniture

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