苹 píng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- Made of
- 艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 平 flat, level, even
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
苹果
píngguǒ
apple
Characters in this word
果 guǒ
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Made of
- 田 field, farm, arable land 木 tree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我吃苹果。 Wǒ chī píng guǒ. I eat an apple.
- 苹果很甜。 Píng guǒ hěn tián. The apple is very sweet.
- 他买苹果。 Tā mǎi píng guǒ. He buys apples.