照 zhào
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 灬 — fire
- Made of
- 昭 bright, luminous 灬 fire
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
照相
zhàoxiàng
to take a photo
Characters in this word
相 xiāng
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 目 — eye
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我们照相。 Wǒmen zhào xiàng. We take a photo.
- 一起照相吧。 Yìqǐ zhào xiàng ba. Let's take a photo together.
- 他在照相。 Tā zài zhào xiàng. He is taking a photo.