得 dé
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 彳 — to step with the left foot
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
得到
dédào
to get, to obtain
Characters in this word
到 dào
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 至 reach, arrive 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我想得到这本书。 Wǒ xiǎng dédào zhè běn shū. I want to get this book.
- 他得到了新电脑。 Tā dédào le xīn diànnǎo. He got a new computer.
- 我得到了很多书。 Wǒ dédào le hěn duō shū. I got lots of books.