校 xiào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
校长
xiàozhǎng
school principal
Characters in this word
长 cháng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 长 — long, lasting
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 校长来了。 Xiàozhǎng lái le. The principal has come.
- 校长很忙。 Xiàozhǎng hěn máng. The principal is very busy.
- 我见校长。 Wǒ jiàn xiàozhǎng. I meet the principal.