木 mù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
木头
mùtou
wood
Characters in this word
头 tóu
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- Made of
- ⺀ ice 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这是木头。 Zhè shì mùtou. This is wood.
- 木头很重。 Mùtou hěn zhòng. The wood is very heavy.
- 他搬木头。 Tā bān mùtou. He carries wood.