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网球

wǎngqiú

tennis

HSK 2 · Topic “Sport and culture”
A racket hitting a ball
Memory picture

Characters in this word

网 wǎng

Strokes
6
Radical
网 — net
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 网

球 qiú

Strokes
11
Radical
王 — king, ruler
Made of
王 king, ruler 求 to seek
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 我打网球。 Wǒ dǎ wǎngqiú. I play tennis.
  • 网球在包里。 Wǎngqiú zài bāo lǐ. The tennis ball is in the bag.
  • 他爱网球。 Tā ài wǎngqiú. He loves tennis.

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