滴管 (dīguǎn): dropper; eyedropper

Measure Word

一支滴管 zhī

Qǐng yòng dīguǎn bǎ yàoshuǐ dī rù ěrduo.

Please use the dropper to put the medicine into your ear.

Huàxué kè shàng měi gè xuéshēng dōu názhe yī zhī dīguǎn.

In chemistry class every student was holding a pipette.

Nóngchǎng yòng dīguǎn xìtǒng gěi zuòwù jiāo shuǐ.

The farm waters its crops with a drip-irrigation system.

memory

滴 (drip) + 管 (tube) = drip tube. Same shape pattern as 吸管 (xīguǎn, 'straw': suck-tube) and 水管 (shuǐguǎn, 'water pipe').

滴 dī

管 guǎn