汉 hàn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 又 and, also, again, in addition
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
汉语
hànyǔ
Chinese (language)
Characters in this word
语 yǔ
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 吾 I, my, our
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我学习汉语。 Wǒ xuéxí Hànyǔ. I study Chinese.
- 汉语很难。 Hànyǔ hěn nán. Chinese is very difficult.
- 他会说汉语。 Tā huì shuō Hànyǔ. He can speak Chinese.
Related words
- 汉字 hànzì Chinese character
- 外语 wàiyǔ foreign language
- 字 zì character, word
- 中文 Zhōngwén Chinese (language)
- 说 shuō to say, to speak
- 说话 shuōhuà to talk, to speak
- 话 huà speech, words
- 读 dú to read, to read aloud; to study
- 读书 dúshū to read books; to study
- 写 xiě to write
- 听写 tīngxiě dictation; to write from dictation
- 听 tīng to listen, to hear