花 huā
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- Made of
- 艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 化 to change, to convert, to reform
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
花园
huāyuán
garden
Characters in this word
园 yuán
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 囗 — enclosure
- Made of
- 囗 enclosure 元 first
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 花园很漂亮。 Huāyuán hěn piàoliang. The garden is very pretty.
- 我在花园里。 Wǒ zài huāyuán lǐ. I am in the garden.
- 花园里有猫。 Huāyuán lǐ yǒu māo. There is a cat in the garden.