高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高速
gāosù
high-speed
Characters in this word
速 sù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 束 to bind, to control, to restrain
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 高速火车来了。 Gāosù huǒchē lái le. The high-speed train is here.
- 这是高速路。 Zhè shì gāosù lù. This is a high-speed road.
- 高速电梯很快。 Gāosù diàntī hěn kuài. The high-speed elevator is very fast.