课 kè
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 果 fruit, nut
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
课本
kèběn
textbook
Characters in this word
本 běn
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Made of
- 木 tree 一 one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我的课本在桌子上。 Wǒ de kèběn zài zhuōzi shang. My textbook is on the table.
- 这是你的课本吗？ Zhè shì nǐ de kèběn ma? Is this your textbook?
- 课本里有很多字。 Kèběn lǐ yǒu hěn duō zì. There are lots of characters in the textbook.
Related words
- 课 kè lesson, class
- 课文 kèwén text (of a lesson)
- 上课 shàngkè to attend class, to start class
- 下课 xiàkè to finish class
- 本 běn measure word for books; root
- 本子 běnzi notebook, exercise book
- 上学 shàngxué to go to school
- 书包 shūbāo schoolbag
- 放学 fàngxué to finish classes (for the day)
- 书 shū book
- 考 kǎo to test, to take an exam
- 中学生 zhōngxuéshēng middle school student