装
zhuāngTraditional: 裝
Translation
to install, to load, to pretend, to pack
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with 衣 (yī, clothing) as the meaning element and 壮 (zhuàng) as the phonetic element, originally referring to dressing and fitting out.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 衣 (yī, clothing) + 壮 (zhuàng, phonetic)
Stroke order
装
Examples
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He packed the books into the box.
。
The workers are installing the air conditioner.
，。
Stop pretending, I know you heard.
台。
This computer has a new system installed.
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She pretended not to see me.
装 (zhuāng) covers a wide span of senses: to install or fit, to pack or load, and to pretend or feign. Its core idea of fitting out underlies derivatives such as 安装 (to install) and 服装 (clothing).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 装.
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