常 cháng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 巾 — cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
- Made of
- 尚 still, yet 巾 cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
常
cháng
often
Character
Example phrases
- 他不常来。 Tā bù cháng lái. He doesn't come often.
- 我常去商店。 Wǒ cháng qù shāngdiàn. I often go to the shop.
- 他常在家看书。 Tā cháng zài jiā kàn shū. He often reads at home.
Related words
- 常常 chángcháng often, usually
- 非常 fēicháng very, extremely
- 先 xiān first, before
- 有时候 yǒushíhou sometimes
- 再 zài again; then
- 马上 mǎshàng right away, at once
- 就 jiù then, right away; just
- 正 zhèng just, right; exactly
- 还有 háiyǒu there is still; and also
- 正在 zhèngzài in the middle of (doing), -ing
- 还 hái still, yet; also
- 别 bié don't; other