TSUMUGU · TOCFL B1 (est.) · 字
妝
妝 ＝ 女 ＋ 爿
ㄓㄨㄤ · zhuāng
verb — to make up, adorn; noun — makeup, attire
字源 FORM — what the parts do
爿聲zhuàng — gives the sounda split plank, the left half of a board
Tzhuàng → zhuāng — the plank-sound levelled
A woman (女) making herself up — to adorn. The sound carries two tellings: 爿 zhuàng, the split board on the left (the phonetic under 壯、牀), levelled to zhuāng; or 裝省, 裝 written short, the dress-up word abbreviated to its left edge. Either way it points to painting and dressing the face, then the look it produces: 化妝、妝扮、梳妝.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
鏡子前，女子（女）一筆一筆，把臉描理整齊。
At the mirror a woman (女) works stroke by stroke, setting her face in order.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)化妝、梳妝— to make up, adorn常用
→妝扮、妝點— to dress up, deck out
→妝容、嫁妝— one's made-up look; a trousseau
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension