游 yóu
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 斿 to swim
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
游泳
yóuyǒng
to swim
Characters in this word
泳 yǒng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 永 long
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我会游泳。 Wǒ huì yóuyǒng. I can swim.
- 他去游泳了。 Tā qù yóuyǒng le. He went swimming.
- 游泳很有趣。 Yóuyǒng hěn yǒuqù. Swimming is very fun.