电 diàn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 曰 — to speak
- Made of
- 曰 to speak 乚 secret, hidden, mysterious
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
电脑
diànnǎo
computer
Characters in this word
脑 nǎo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我用电脑工作。 Wǒ yòng diànnǎo gōngzuò. I work on a computer.
- 这个电脑很新。 Zhège diànnǎo hěn xīn. This computer is new.
- 我买了一个电脑。 Wǒ mǎi le yí gè diànnǎo. I bought a computer.