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Word and Radical Components of 砧板

The Chinese word 砧板 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
砧板 zhēnbǎn 1. n. chopping board; cutting board or block

砧板 ⇨ 砧 + 板
Component Pinyin Meanings
砧 zhēn, zhān 1. base for beating or chopping
2.    stone base for beating clothes
3.    anvil
4.    base for cutting or lethal sentence
5. base in general
6. (Hakka) to hold one's hands in closed fists and to strike with phalanx
板 bǎn 1. plank; board
     木板 - board; plank
     玻璃 板 - glass board
2. blackboard
     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
     散sǎn板 - 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
     噶 聲 閒話 板 是 俚 說 噶。 - That voice must be his., W-SZ, ref=1993, 蘇州方言詞典, page 19
12. Variant of 闆

板 ⇨ 木 + 反
Component Pinyin Meanings
木 mù 1. tree; woody plant
     Synonyms: 樹
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
     這 張 桌子 是 木 的。 - 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
     她 手指 凍 木 了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
反 fàn 1. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note fa (4).
     Synonyms: 凡

反 ⇨ + 又
Component Pinyin Meanings
1.
又 yòu 1. again; once more
     又 下雨 了！ - It's raining again!
     想 了 又 想 - to think and think; to deeply think about
     一次 又 一次 的 失敗 - failure after failure
2. (Used to express the coexistence of several conditions or qualities); both ... and ...
     聰明 又 漂亮liang - smart and pretty
     我 又 餓 又 渴。 - I am hungry and thirsty.
     我 又 想 去，又 不 想 去，該 怎麼 辦？ - I want to go, but I also don't want to go, what should I do?
3. also; in addition
     達·芬-奇 是 科學家，又 是 藝術家。 - Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist also an artist.
4. (Used between a whole number and a fraction)
     四 小時 又 十 分鐘 - four hours and ten minutes
     二 又 三 分 之 一 - two and a third
5. but; on the other hand
6. (Used in negative statements and rhetorical questions for emphasis)
     這樣 做 對 你 又 有 什麼 好處？ - What good for you is there in doing that?
     嗰 啲 嘢 又 唔係 我 做，關 我 咩 事 啫。 - Why should I care about that! It's not like I did it.
     我 又 唔係 冇錢。 - It's not like I'm broke.
7. usage. Compared to 又 is used for something that already happened.