世 shì
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
世纪
shìjì
century
Characters in this word
纪 jì
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- Made of
- 纟 silk 己 self, oneself
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这是新世纪。 Zhè shì xīn shìjì. This is a new century.
- 上世纪很不同。 Shàng shìjì hěn bùtóng. The last century was very different.
- 世纪末很热闹。 Shìjì mò hěn rènao. The end of the century was lively.