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Meaning of 匣

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Pinyin: xiá
English Definition: box
Chinese Definition:
①收藏东西的器具,通常指小型的,盖可以开合:匣子。木匣。梳头匣。
Total strokes: 7; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (box) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Surround from left
    • [ fāng ] box; basket
    • [ jiǎ ] armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem
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Example Words
匣子 xiá zi small box
黑匣子 hēi xiá zi (airplane) black box
弹匣 dàn xiá magazine (for ammunition)
话匣子 huà xiá zi phonograph or radio (old term); chatterbox; talkative person
收件匣 shōu jiàn xiá inbox (email)
More: 匣* | *匣 | *匣*
Example Sentences
1
Only promise to bring me an old tinder-box, which my grandmother left behind the last time she went down there.
2
The little black boxes in airplanes provide useful information after a crash has taken place.
3
The matches now lay between a tinder-box and an old iron saucepan, and were talking about their youthful days.
4
What an insipid and dreary scene!I opened the lunch-box only④ to have it covered up again.
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