高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高速公路
gāosùgōnglù
highway
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
公 gōng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 八 — eight
- Made of
- 八 eight 厶 private, secret
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 高速公路很长。 Gāosù gōnglù hěn cháng. The highway is very long.
- 我上高速公路。 Wǒ shàng gāosù gōnglù. I get on the highway.
- 高速公路堵了。 Gāosù gōnglù dǔ le. The highway is jammed.