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雕塑家

diāosùjiā
noun #30,198

Measure Word

一位雕塑家 wèi

Meanings

  1. 1 sculptor

Examples

他是一位很有名的雕塑家。
Tā shì yī wèi hěn yǒumíng de diāosùjiā.
He is a very famous sculptor.
这件作品出自一位法国雕塑家之手。
Zhè jiàn zuòpǐn chū zì yī wèi Fǎguó diāosùjiā zhī shǒu.
This work was made by a French sculptor.

Tips

memory
雕 'to carve' + 塑 'to mold/shape' + 家 (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

雕 diāo
塑 sù
家 jiā