软木塞

軟木塞

ruǎnmùsāi

noun #31,881

Measure Word

一个软木塞 gè

Meanings

1 cork (bottle stopper)
2 wine cork

Characters

to stuff / stopper

Examples

他用开瓶器拔出软木塞。

Tā yòng kāipíngqì bá chū ruǎnmùsāi.

He pulled out the cork with a corkscrew.

这瓶葡萄酒用的是天然软木塞。

Zhè píng pútáojiǔ yòng de shì tiānrán ruǎnmùsāi.

This wine uses a natural cork.

Tips

memory

Literally 'soft-wood-stopper' — perfectly descriptive: cork (软木 'soft wood') comes from the bark of the cork oak (栓皮栎), and 塞 (sāi) is the standard word for 'plug / stopper'. Note 塞 has three readings — sāi (to stuff, this case), sài (frontier), sè (formal 'block').

Stroke Order

软 ruǎn

木 mù

塞 sāi