基 jī
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
基本上
jīběnshang
basically; mostly
Characters in this word
上 shàng
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 一 — one
- Made of
- ⺊ divination 一 one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我基本上懂。 Wǒ jīběnshang dǒng. I basically understand.
- 他基本上好了。 Tā jīběnshang hǎo le. He is mostly better now.
- 基本上没问题。 Jīběnshang méi wèntí. Basically, there is no problem.