院 yuàn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 阝 place, town, city 完 to complete, to finish, to settle
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
院长
yuànzhǎng
director; head of an institution
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
- 院长来了。 Yuànzhǎng lái le. The director has come.
- 院长在办公室。 Yuànzhǎng zài bàngōngshì. The director is in the office.
- 他是院长。 Tā shì yuànzhǎng. He is the director.