椅 yǐ
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
椅子
yǐzi
chair
Characters in this word
子 zi
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 椅子在这儿。 Yǐzi zài zhèr. The chair is here.
- 我有椅子。 Wǒ yǒu yǐzi. I have a chair.
- 椅子很新。 Yǐzi hěn xīn. The chair is very new.