温 wēn
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 昷 warm, a warm meal
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
温度
wēndù
temperature
Characters in this word
度 dù
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 今天温度高。 Jīntiān wēndù gāo. Today has a high temperature.
- 水的温度低。 Shuǐ de wēndù dī. The water temperature is low.
- 温度不太高。 Wēndù bú tài gāo. The temperature is not very high.