脖 bó neck
怎么记住“脖”: 月 meat + 孛 thrive = neck. Thanks to all the meat he eats, the boxer's muscles thrive and grow, until no shirt will close around his thick neck.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
脖 = 月 meat + 孛 thrive
- 月 meat meaning
- 孛 thrive sound
Thanks to all the meat he eats, the boxer's muscles thrive and grow, until no shirt will close around his thick neck.
How it came to be
The flesh gives the meaning and the sign for thriving gives the sound.
用法
- The neck: 脖子 (bózi), the everyday word: 围脖 a scarf (round the neck).
- 脖子疼 (bózi téng) = a sore neck.
- 卡脖子 (qiǎ bózi) = to choke/to have a stranglehold on (figurative: 卡脖子技术 a chokepoint technology someone else controls).
- Bound with 子 suffix as 脖子; 脖 rarely appears alone.