叶窗

葉窗
yèchuāng
noun #34,694

Measure Word

叶窗 shàn

Meanings

  1. 1 louver / louvre
  2. 2 shutter window (with horizontal slats)

Examples

Wòshì zhuāng de shì bǎiyèchuāng.
The bedroom has Venetian blinds installed.
Yángguāng tòuguò yèchuāng sǎ jìn wū li.
Sunlight filtered through the louvers into the room.

Tips

usage
Almost always met as part of 百叶窗 (bǎiyèchuāng, 'hundred-leaf window' = Venetian blind / louvered shutter). Plain 叶窗 is rarer and treats 'leaf' as the slat metaphor — each slat is one 'leaf'.
memory
(leaf) + (window) — a window with rows of leaf-like slats.

Stroke Order

chuāng