蝴蝶裝
hú​dié​zhuāng

butterfly binding

  • created sense approved 蝴蝶装/蝴蝶裝 · hú​dié​zhuāng · butterfly binding — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    蝴蝶装 / 蝴蝶裝

    hú​dié​zhuāng

    butterfly binding

    A style of bookbinding for ancient Chinese books, popular during the Song Dynasty, where printed pages are folded in half with the text facing inward and the folded edges glued together; the book opens like the wings of a butterfly.

    蝴蝶 (literal) → 蝴蝶 · hú​dié · butterfly 装 (bound) → 装/裝 · zhuāng · [binding]

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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