放 fàng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 攵 — to rap, to tap
- Made of
- 方 square, rectangle 攵 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
放假
fàngjià
to have a holiday
Characters in this word
假 jià
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 叚 false
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我们明天放假。 Wǒmen míngtiān fàngjià. We're off tomorrow.
- 学生们今天放假。 Xuéshengmen jīntiān fàngjià. The students have a day off today.
- 放假了，我很高兴。 Fàngjià le, wǒ hěn gāoxìng. The holidays have started, I'm so happy.
Related words
- 放 fàng to put, to place
- 放学 fàngxué to finish classes (for the day)
- 请假 qǐngjià to ask for leave
- 忙 máng busy
- 累 lèi tired
- 开会 kāihuì to have a meeting
- 事 shì matter, thing; work
- 工人 gōngrén worker
- 准备 zhǔnbèi to prepare; to plan to
- 工作 gōngzuò to work; work, job
- 下班 xiàbān to finish work
- 上班 shàngbān to go to work