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Meaning of 鞘

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Pinyin: qiào
English Definition: scabbard; sheath
Chinese Definition:
①装刀、剑的套子:刀鞘。剑鞘。
Total strokes: 16; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (leather) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ ] leather, animal hide; to reform; to remove
    • [ xiào ] to resemble, to look like; to be like
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Example Words
腱鞘炎 jiàn qiào yán tenosynovitis (medicine)
胚芽鞘 pēi qiào coleoptile, protective sheath covering an emerging shoot (botany)
髓鞘 suǐ qiào myelin sheath (membrane surrounding axon of nerve cell)
出鞘 chū qiào (of a sword etc) to unsheath
腱鞘 jiàn qiào tendon sheath (anatomy); epitendon
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Example Sentences
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In the spleen, most of the lymphocytes of the red pulp are B cells, whereas those of the periarteriolar lymphoid sheaths are T cells.
2
Everyone agrees that MS destroys the fatty myelin sheath that enwraps many nerve fibers.
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When something took one of his remaining baits, he cut the line with his sheath knife.
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Paul Thompson at the University of California, Los Angeles, has found a correlation between IQ and the quality of the sheaths.
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He drew his sword in its sheath and apologized for his defiance of the domestic, claiming a misunderstanding, and quickly left the scene.