英 yīng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- Made of
- 艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 央 central
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
英文
Yīngwén
written English
Characters in this word
文 wén
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 文 — culture, literature, writing
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 我会英文。 Wǒ huì Yīngwén. I know English.
- 这是英文。 Zhè shì Yīngwén. This is English.
- 英文不难。 Yīngwén bù nán. English is not hard.
Related words
- 英语 Yīngyǔ English language
- 英勇 yīngyǒng heroic; brave
- 课文 kèwén text (of a lesson)
- 中文 Zhōngwén Chinese (language)
- 作文 zuòwén composition
- 外文 wàiwén foreign language; foreign writing
- 文化 wénhuà culture
- 文件 wénjiàn document; file
- 文明 wénmíng civilized
- 文学 wénxué literature
- 文章 wénzhāng article; essay
- 文字 wénzì written language