澡 zǎo bathe
怎么记住“澡”: 氵 water + 喿 chirp = bathe. Grandpa runs hot water into the tub, hums along to the chirp of the birds outside and sinks down to bathe.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
澡 = 氵 water + 喿 chirp
- 氵 water meaning
- 喿 chirp sound
Grandpa runs hot water into the tub, hums along to the chirp of the birds outside and sinks down to bathe.
How it came to be
Water gives the meaning and chirp gives the sound; at first the word meant washing the hands.
用法
- Bound morpheme meaning 'bathe'. You almost never see 澡 alone; the everyday word is 洗澡 (xǐzǎo) take a bath/shower.
- 洗澡 is intransitive as a unit: say 我去洗澡 (wǒ qù xǐzǎo) I'm going to shower, not 洗澡身体.
- The bath-water is 洗澡水 (xǐzǎoshuǐ); the room can be 澡堂 (zǎotáng) a public bathhouse.
含“澡”的汉字
含“澡”的词语
例句
- 夏天洗澡很凉快。 Xiàtiān xǐzǎo hěn liángkuai.Taking a bath in summer is very refreshing [lit., "cool"]. .
- 她在给大象洗澡。 Tā zài gěi dàxiàng xǐzǎo.He's giving the elephant a bath.