noun #3,639

Measure Word

裤子 tiáo

Meanings

  1. 1 trousers; pants

Examples

HSK 2
Zhè tiáo kùzi tài cháng le.
These pants are too long.
HSK 2
Xiàtiān chuān duǎnkù hěn shūfu.
Wearing shorts in summer is comfortable.
HSK 3
Tā chuān le yì tiáo niúzǎikù.
He's wearing a pair of jeans.

Tips

usage
usually appears as 裤子 (pants). Related words: 短裤 (shorts), 牛仔裤 (jeans), 内裤 (underwear), 西裤 (dress pants). Measure word is .

Components

radical
clothing (left-side radical)
Five-stroke clothing radical on the left - the side-form of (a robe with collar and dangling sleeves). Indexes in the garment family alongside shirt, sleeve, skirt, sock. The radical pins the meaning to wearable cloth - exactly what trousers are.
phonetic
warehouse; storehouse
Right side supplies the sound (kù, exact match). itself pictures a sheltered space 广 housing a vehicle - a garage or storage shed. In it adds a faint flavour of 'an enclosed compartment' that suits a piece of clothing wrapping around the legs. Same phonetic also in a legendary ruler.

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