功 gōng
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 力 — strength, power
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
功课
gōngkè
homework
Characters in this word
课 kè
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 果 fruit, nut
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我做功课。 Wǒ zuò gōngkè. I do my homework.
- 功课多吗？ Gōngkè duō ma? Is there a lot of homework?
- 今天功课少。 Jīntiān gōngkè shǎo. There is little homework today.