金 jīn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 金 — gold, metal
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
金牌
jīnpái
gold medal
Characters in this word
牌 pái
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 片 — slice, splinter
- Made of
- 片 slice, splinter 卑 humble, low, inferior
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他拿金牌。 Tā ná jīnpái. He gets the gold medal.
- 金牌很重。 Jīnpái hěn zhòng. The gold medal is heavy.
- 这是金牌。 Zhè shì jīnpái. This is a gold medal.