锡箔 (xī bó) — tinfoil paper, tin foil | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

tinfoil papertin foil

Measure word · 张

Examples

锡箔。
Wǒ mǎi le yì zhāng xī bó yòng lái bāo shí wù.
I bought a sheet of tinfoil to wrap food.
锡箔。
Bǎ shèng xià de xī bó zhé dié hǎo fàng huí chōu ti.
Fold the leftover tinfoil and put it back in the drawer.
锡箔，。
Zhè zhǒng xī bó hěn báo, róng yì sī pò.
This kind of tinfoil is very thin and tears easily.

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.

锡 gives the metal, and 箔 names thin foil.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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

竹泊箔

Meaning part形符xíngfú

竹竹zhúbamboo

Sound part声符shēngfú

泊

泊bó箔bó

Same sound today

In 箔, 竹 is the bamboo part, and 泊 gives the sound. This does not explain the screen or door-curtain meanings.

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