酒 jiǔ
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 酉 — wine
- Made of
- 氵 water 酉 wine
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
酒店
jiǔdiàn
hotel
Characters in this word
店 diàn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 酒店很近。 Jiǔdiàn hěn jìn. The hotel is very close.
- 我住酒店。 Wǒ zhù jiǔdiàn. I stay in a hotel.
- 酒店有房间。 Jiǔdiàn yǒu fángjiān. The hotel has rooms.