世 shì
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
世界
shìjiè
world
Characters in this word
界 jiè
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 田 — field, farm, arable land
- Made of
- 田 field, farm, arable land 介 agent, go-between, intermediary
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 世界很大。 Shìjiè hěn dà. The world is very big.
- 我想看世界。 Wǒ xiǎng kàn shìjiè. I want to see the world.
- 世界真美。 Shìjiè zhēn měi. The world is really beautiful.