工 gōng
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 工 — labor, work
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
工程师
gōngchéngshī
engineer
Characters in this word
程 chéng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 禾 — cereal, grain, rice
- Made of
- 禾 cereal, grain, rice 呈 to petition, to submit
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
师 shī
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 巾 — cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
- Made of
- 刂 knife 帀 to rotate, to revolve, to make a circuit
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 他是工程师。 Tā shì gōngchéngshī. He is an engineer.
- 工程师来了。 Gōngchéngshī lái le. The engineer has arrived.
- 我想当工程师。 Wǒ xiǎng dāng gōngchéngshī. I want to be an engineer.