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Word and Radical Components of 地板

The Chinese word 地板 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
地板 dìbǎn 1. n. floor
     照片 滿 地板 。 - There were photographs thrown all over the floor.
2. n. floor covering; flooring
3. n. ground; soil

地板 ⇨ 地 + 板
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. earth
     天地 - heaven and earth
2. ground; floor
     水泥 - concrete floor
      地上shang。 - The horse collapsed to the ground.
     銀包 。 - The wallet fell on the ground.
      dei6-2 - to lie on the floor on one's stomach
3. land; field
     低地 - lowland
     nei1 - this plot of land
4. distance; separation
     車站 。 - The bus stop is three miles away.
5. farmland; field
     田間 地頭 - farmland
     下地 幹活 - to farm
6. (only in compounds) area; region
     本地 - local
     殖民地 - colony
7. place; locality
     地處chǔ - located in
     目的地 - destination
     分居 - to live apart in two different places
8. status; situation; position
     不敗之地 - invincible position
     設身處chǔ - put oneself in somebody else’s position
9. (only in compounds) state of mind
     心地 - mind
     見地 - perspective, opinion
10. place; room; space
      地兒r - There is no room in my home (for that).
11. background (behind a text or figure)
     (zh-co, 白地黑字, black characters on a white background)
12. (only in compounds) Short for 地球 (Earth)
      距離 - Earth–Sun distance
      行星 - terrestrial planet
13. (Hakka) grave; tomb
      - Gedi station (蛤地 means "frog-shaped tomb")
14. (Mainland China) prefecture
     地級市 - prefecture-level city
de, di 15. (chiefly Mandarin) (Particle indicating the preceding word is used as an adverb.)
     (zh-alt-inline, , obsolete, c=1)
      de - very quickly
     一個 模樣 孩子zi 我們 蹣跚 de 走來。 - A roughly one-year-old child came staggering towards us.
      偷偷 dei6-2 。 - He secretly left.
      靜靜zing6-2 dei6-2 喺度 。 - Sit here quietly, OK?
16. (Cantonese) (Placed after a reduplicated adjective or stative verb to lessen its intensity.)
      hung4-2 dei6-2 - kind of red
      bok6-2 dei6-2 - kind of thin
      dei6-2 - to be kind of scared
      dei6-2 - kind of short
17. =====Usage notes=====
18. (Hokkien, Teochew) Alternative form of 塊 (-, t=place)
19. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Alternative form of 塊 (-, t=home)
20. Variant of 哋
bǎn 1. plank; board
     木板 - board; plank
     玻璃 - glass board
2. blackboard
     (zh-x, 板報)
3. sluggish; stiff; inflexible
     呆板 - sluggish
     古板 - stuffy; old-fashioned and inflexible
4. to harden; hardened
5. (internet) board (sub-unit of a larger BBS or imageboard)
6. (music) clapper
7. (music) beat; meter; rhythm (in music or Chinese opera)
     行板 - andante
     sǎn - sanban
8. to look serious or displeased
9. (literary or Min Nan) wooden coffin
10. (Min Nan) ability; capability; talent
11. (Suzhou) to have to; must
      閒話 。 - That voice must be his., W-SZ, ref=1993, 蘇州方言詞典, page 19
12. Variant of 闆

地 ⇨ 土 + 也
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. earth; soil
     土堆 - mound; hillock
     這兒r 。 - The soil here is quite fertile.
2. (dialectal) dust
3. land
     國土 - territory
     寸土不讓 - to not give up a single inch of one's territory
4. crude opium
     煙土 - crude opium
5. hometown; native place
     故土 - native land; native place
6. local; native; indigenous
     土著 - aboriginal
     土話 - local dialect
7. rustic; unsophisticated; uncouth; vulgar; tasteless; uncultured
      覺得 東北話 實在 。 - I think that Northeastern Mandarin is too rustic.
8. indigenous; traditional and used by the common people
     土法 - traditional method used by the common people; indigenous method
      - gun manufactured using indigenous methods
9. (zh-div, 族) the Monguor people; Monguor people; White Mongol
10. Short for 土耳其 (Turkey)
      戰爭 - Russo-Turkish War
11. Only used in 土門 (tr=Túmén)
12. Simplified form of 士
1. also; too; as well; (in negative sentences) neither; either
      。 - I also went.
      中國人。 - I am Chinese too.
      如果 。 - If you don't go, I won't either.
      沒有 看見 。 - I haven't seen it either.
2. (Used for emphasis.)
      不像話 。 - This is way too outrageous.
3.    (With object fronting.)
4.   他 飯 也 不 吃,覺 也 不 睡。 - (Disappointingly) he neither eats nor sleeps.
5.    (Used in the (m, zh, 連……也……) constructions for stronger emphasis. Interchangeable with 都.) even
6.   他 連 畜生 也 不如,連 自己 的 父母 也 不 養活。 - He is no better than an animal, because he doesn't even support his own parents.
7.    (Used in the (m, zh, 再……也……) concessive constructions.) still, anyway, nevertheless
8.   你 再 聰明,也 回答 不了liǎo 這 個 問題。 - No matter how smart you are, you won't be able to answer this question.
9. (Classical) (Particle used at the end of copular constructions involving a nominal predicate;) to be (although not grammatically a verb)
      。 - I am a person, too.
      西 天下 。 - In the west there are great mountains, which are the tallest in the world.
10.    (Often used more loosely than the English copula to indicate a cause or relation.)
11. (Classical) (Topic-marking particle used at the end of noun phrases.)
     (syn, zh, )
12.    when, at the time of; (especially commonly used for temporal topics, often as (m, zh, 及其……也).)
13. (Classical) (Verb phrase-final particle marking continuous aspect, especially common for assertions of unchanging fact.)
14. (Teochew) if
15. . Ye

板 ⇨ 木 + 反
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. tree; woody plant
     (syn, zh, )
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
      桌子 。 - This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
     木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
     棺木 - coffin
     就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
     有木有 - innit, damn right
6. numb
     麻木 - numb, insensitive
      手指 。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
fàn 1. (music) (ng, Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note fa (4).)
     (syn, zh, )

也 ⇨ 乜 + 丨
Component Pinyin Meanings
miē 1. (Cantonese, Min Nan) what
      ? - What do you want?
      乜個? - tr=ain3 mih4 gai5?, What do you want?, MN-T
2. (Cantonese) anything; everything
      - anything goes
3. (Cantonese) why; how come
      ? - How come you're so stupid?
4. (Cantonese) (Used at the beginning of a question to give a rhetorical effect.)
      食飯 gaa4? - So you haven't eaten yet?
      消息 ? - So we still don't have any news about him?
5. =====Usage notes=====
6. In Teochew, when used to mean "what", this word should always be immediately followed by a noun. Otherwise, use 乜個.
miē 7. to narrow one's eyes and squint
Niè, Miě 8. , listed 388th in the Baijiaxing
9. (dialectal Mandarin) that
10. (Hakka) also
gǔn 1. line
2. (zh-hist-ghost) be through up and down

反 ⇨ + 又
Component Pinyin Meanings
1.
yòu 1. again; once more
      下雨 ! - It's raining again!
      - to think and think; to deeply think about
     一次 一次 失敗 - failure after failure
2. (Used to express the coexistence of several conditions or qualities); both ... and ...
     聰明 漂亮liang - smart and pretty
      。 - I am hungry and thirsty.
      怎麼 ? - I want to go, but I also don't want to go, what should I do?
3. also; in addition
     ·- 科學家 藝術家。 - Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist also an artist.
4. (Used between a whole number and a fraction)
      小時 分鐘 - four hours and ten minutes
      - two and a third
5. but; on the other hand
6. (Used in negative statements and rhetorical questions for emphasis)
     這樣 什麼 好處? - What good for you is there in doing that?
      唔係 。 - Why should I care about that! It's not like I did it.
      唔係 冇錢。 - It's not like I'm broke.
7. usage. Compared to 又 is used for something that already happened.