石 shí
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 石 — stone, rock, mineral
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
石头
shítou
stone
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
- 地上有石头。 Dì shang yǒu shí tou. There is a stone on the ground.
- 石头很重。 Shí tou hěn zhòng. The stone is very heavy.
- 我捡石头。 Wǒ jiǎn shí tou. I pick up a stone.