香 xiāng
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 香 — incense
- Made of
- 禾 cereal, grain, rice 日 sun
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
香蕉
xiāngjiāo
banana
Characters in this word
蕉 jiāo
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- Made of
- 艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 焦 burned, scorched
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我吃香蕉。 Wǒ chī xiāngjiāo. I eat a banana.
- 香蕉很甜。 Xiāngjiāo hěn tián. Bananas are very sweet.
- 请买香蕉。 Qǐng mǎi xiāngjiāo. Please buy bananas.