放 fàng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 攵 — to rap, to tap
- Made of
- 方 square, rectangle 攵 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
放下
fàngxia
to put down
Characters in this word
下 xià
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 一 — one
- Made of
- 一 one 卜 divination, fortune-telling
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 请放下书。 Qǐng fàng xia shū. Please put down the book.
- 放下手机。 Fàng xia shǒu jī. Put down the phone.
- 他放下包。 Tā fàng xia bāo. He puts down the bag.
Related words
- 放 fàng to put, to place
- 放假 fàngjià to have a holiday
- 放学 fàngxué to finish classes (for the day)
- 放心 fàngxīn to feel at ease; to not worry
- 播放 bōfàng to play; to broadcast
- 放到 fàngdào to put in; to put onto
- 开放 kāifàng to open; to bloom
- 放松 fàngsōng to relax
- 放大 fàngdà to enlarge
- 放弃 fàngqì to give up
- 解放 jiěfàng to liberate; liberation
- 楼下 lóuxià downstairs