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硬盘

yìngpán

hard disk; hard drive

A metal hard disk box beside a stack of file folders
Memory picture

Characters in this word

硬 yìng

Strokes
12
Radical
石 — stone, rock, mineral
Made of
石 stone, rock, mineral 更 more, further
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

盘 pán

Strokes
11
Radical
皿 — dish, vessel
Made of
舟 boat, ship 皿 dish, vessel
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 电脑的硬盘快满了,我得删掉一些旧文件。 Diànnǎo de yìngpán kuài mǎn le, wǒ děi shāndiào yīxiē jiù wénjiàn. My computer's hard drive is almost full, so I need to delete some old files.
  • 她把所有照片都备份到了移动硬盘里。 Tā bǎ suǒyǒu zhàopiàn dōu bèifèn dào le yídòng yìngpán lǐ. She backed up all her photos to an external hard drive.
  • 这台旧电脑太慢,换一个新硬盘就会快很多。 Zhè tái jiù diànnǎo tài màn, huàn yīgè xīn yìngpán jiù huì kuài hěn duō. This old computer is too slow; installing a new hard drive will make it much faster.

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