Friday, January 23, 2015

23 Jan - 車庫 - P:ㄔㄎㄨˋ - Parking Garage

Word: 車庫 - Parking Garage
Pronounced: ㄔㄎㄨˋ || Chēkù

Building Blocks;
Today's word is built from the word for car/carriage (P:ㄔ || Chē) and the word for storehouse/warehouse (P: ㄎㄨˋ || kù).

Notice how the word for storehouse/warehouse is built from the radical for "A dotted cliff" 广 (P: ㄍㄨㄤˇ || guǎng) and car/chariote .

So what about Pants
A quick note that the word for pants  (P: ㄎㄨˋ || kù) has the same pronunciation as . On the character however we add the word the radical for clothes (P: ㄧ || Yī) in front of the character for storehouse/warehouse and we get the character for pants with the same pronunciation.




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