飞 fēi
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 飞 — to fly, to dart
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
飞机
fēijī
airplane
Characters in this word
机 jī
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Made of
- 木 tree 几 small table
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我坐飞机去北京。 Wǒ zuò fēijī qù Běijīng. I'm flying to Beijing.
- 飞机很大。 Fēijī hěn dà. The plane is very big.
- 飞机上有多少人？ Fēijī shàng yǒu duōshao rén? How many people are on the plane?