东 dōng
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
东部
dōngbù
eastern part
Characters in this word
部 bù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 咅 to spit out 阝 place, town, city
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 东部有大海。 Dōngbù yǒu dàhǎi. There is a sea in the east.
- 我住在东部。 Wǒ zhù zài dōngbù. I live in the eastern part.
- 东部天气好。 Dōngbù tiānqì hǎo. The weather is good in the east.