意 yì
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
意外
yìwài
accident; unexpected event
Characters in this word
外 wài
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 夕 — evening, night, dusk
- Made of
- 夕 evening, night, dusk 卜 divination, fortune-telling
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这是意外。 Zhè shì yìwài. This is an accident.
- 那是意外。 Nà shì yìwài. That was unexpected.
- 意外发生了。 Yìwài fāshēng le. An accident happened.