雕塑家

diāosùjiā
noun #30,198

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 sculptor

Examples

HSK 2
Tā shì yí wèi hěn yǒumíng de diāosùjiā.
He is a very famous sculptor.
HSK 7-9
Zhè jiàn zuòpǐn chūzì yí wèi Fǎguó diāosùjiā zhī shǒu.
This work was made by a French sculptor.

Tips

memory
'to carve' + 'to mold/shape' + (the agent suffix used in 画家 'painter', 作家 'writer', 音乐家 'musician'). Carving covers stone and wood, molding covers clay and bronze - together they cover all of sculpture.

In Pop Culture

罗丹 Luódān
Auguste Rodin
the most-cited 雕塑家 in Chinese textbooks; his 思想者 (The Thinker) is the standard example of modern Western sculpture.

Stroke Order

diāo
jiā