(chuān) - to wear, to put on clothing; to pass through in Mandarin
chuānTraditional: 穿
Translation
to wear, to put on clothing; to pass through
Word origin
穿 is a phono-semantic compound: 穴 (cave, hole) supplies the meaning of piercing through, while 牙 (yá, tooth) supplies the sound. The original sense was to bore through, extended to passing through and to putting on clothing.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 穴 (xué, cave/hole radical) + 牙 (yá, phonetic)
Stroke order
穿
Examples
，。
It's cold today, wear more.
红裙。
She wore a red dress.
。
We passed through the forest.
，。
It's too cold today, wear more clothes.
双红鞋。
She wore a pair of red shoes.
穿 (chuān) - to wear, to put on clothing; to pass through.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 穿.
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