荧光笔

熒光筆
yíngguāngbǐ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 highlighter (pen); fluorescent marker

Examples

Tā yòng yíngguāngbǐ bǎ zhòngdiǎn huà chūlái.
She highlighted the key points with a highlighter.
Shūbāo lǐ chángbèi jǐ zhī bùtóng yánsè de yíngguāngbǐ.
She keeps a few highlighters of different colors in her school bag.

Tips

memory
originally ‘firefly’, came to mean ‘glow / fluorescent’. 荧光 (fluorescence) + (pen) — the pen that glows, just like the pigment on a screen (荧屏 = fluorescent screen).

Stroke Order

yíng
guāng