超 chāo
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 走 — to walk, to run, to flee
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
超市
chāoshì
supermarket
Characters in this word
市 shì
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 巾 — cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
- Made of
- 亠 lid, cover 巾 cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
Example phrases
- 我去超市。 Wǒ qù chāoshì. I go to the supermarket.
- 超市很近。 Chāoshì hěn jìn. The supermarket is very close.
- 她在超市买菜。 Tā zài chāoshì mǎi cài. She buys groceries at the supermarket.