白大褂 (bái dà guà) — white lab coat, doctor's coat | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

white lab coatdoctor's coat

Measure word · 件

Examples

白大褂。
Yī shēng dōu chuān zhuó bái dà guà shàng bān.
Doctors all wear white lab coats to work.
白大褂。
Zhè jiàn bái dà guà xū yào měi tiān xiāo dú.
This white lab coat needs to be disinfected every day.
白大褂，。
Tā tuō xià bái dà guà, guà zài le yī jià shàng.
He took off his white lab coat and hung it on the coat rack.

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.

大褂long gown

大dàlarge褂guàgown

偏正Modifier + head

白 names the color, and 大褂 the long gown, together a white doctor's coat.

Characters in this word

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

白 is thought to picture either an acorn or a human head.

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

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú

衣衣yīclothes

Sound part声符shēngfú

卦

卦guà褂guà

Same sound today

For the jacket 褂, 衣 shows it is clothing, and 卦 gives the sound.

Appears in

Clothing Hospital & Clinic

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