书 shū
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 丨 — number one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
书店
shūdiàn
bookstore
Characters in this word
店 diàn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- Made of
- 广 broad, vast, wide 占 to divine
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我去书店买书。 Wǒ qù shūdiàn mǎi shū. I'm going to the bookstore to buy a book.
- 这个书店很大。 Zhège shūdiàn hěn dà. This bookstore is very big.
- 我们去书店吧。 Wǒmen qù shūdiàn ba. Let's go to the bookstore.