制 zhì
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
制度
zhìdù
system
Characters in this word
度 dù
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这个制度很好。 Zhège zhìdù hěn hǎo. This system is very good.
- 学校有新制度。 Xuéxiào yǒu xīn zhìdù. The school has a new system.
- 制度要公平。 Zhìdù yào gōngpíng. A system should be fair.
Related words
- 制定 zhìdìng to make; to draw up
- 制造 zhìzào to make; to produce
- 制作 zhìzuò to make; to create
- 复制 fùzhì to copy
- 限制 xiànzhì to limit; limit
- 研制 yánzhì to develop
- 制订 zhìdìng to draw up; to make
- 豆制品 dòuzhìpǐn soy products
- 法制 fǎzhì legal system
- 机制 jīzhì mechanism
- 控制 kòngzhì to control
- 制成 zhìchéng to be made from