性 xìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Made of
- 忄 heart 生 life, lifetime
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
性别
xìngbié
gender
Characters in this word
别 bié
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 另 another 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 请填性别。 Qǐng tián xìng bié. Please fill in your gender.
- 性别不重要。 Xìng bié bù zhòng yào. Gender is not important.
- 性别写错了。 Xìng bié xiě cuò le. The gender was written wrong.
Related words
- 个性 gèxìng personality; individuality
- 性 xìng nature; quality
- 性格 xìnggé personality; character
- 性质 xìngzhì nature; property
- 男性 nánxìng male
- 女性 nǚxìng woman; female
- 特性 tèxìng special feature
- 性能 xìngnéng performance
- 别 bié don't; other
- 别的 biéde other, else
- 别人 biérén other people, others
- 特别 tèbié especially; very