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高浓度 (gāo nóng dù) — high concentration (e.g., of a chemical, medication, or abstract quality)

Definition

adjective
high concentration (e.g., of a chemical, medication, or abstract quality)

Examples

  • 高浓度。
    Zhè zhǒng jiǔ jīng de gāo nóng dù shì bǎi fēn zhī jiǔ shí wǔ.
    The concentration of this alcohol is 95%.
  • 高浓度。
    Shí yàn shì xū yào gāo nóng dù de yán suān jìn xíng fǎn yìng.
    The lab needs high-concentration hydrochloric acid for the reaction.
  • 高浓度。
    Tā yīn wèi cháng qī jiē chù gāo nóng dù yǒu hài wù zhì ér shēng bìng le.
    He got sick from long-term exposure to high concentrations of harmful substances.

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.

高gāohigh
浓度concentration
浓nóngconcentrated度dùmeasure
偏正Modifier + head

高 means high and 浓度 means concentration, so it describes a very concentrated amount of something.

Characters in this word

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

高 was drawn as a tall building.

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 濃; 浓 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
氵Written in full as水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
農
農nóng濃nóng
Same sound today

The traditional form 濃 has 氵 as water and 農 as the sound part; this is the form described here.

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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
又又yòuhand
Sound part声符shēngfú
石
石shí度dù
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

度 has 又 (hand) and a changed form of 石; 石 gives a related sound, and the hand is tied to using the hand as a reference for measurement.

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Appears in
Physics & Chemistry

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